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Foundations for statistical-physical precipitation retrieval from passive microwave satellite measurements. II - Emission-source and generalized weighting-function properties of a time-dependent cloud-radiation modelThe foremost physical aspects of microphysical-radiative interactions that control the formation and modulation of frequency-dependent passive microwave TB over a continental cold-rain precipitation system are explained within the framework of the essential ingredients of a physically based precipitation-retrieval algorithm. The analysis is based on a modeling study in which a 3D cloud model has provided the objective basis for generating an extensive set of microphysical profiles that describe numerous precipitation features in the course of the evolution of a continental hail storm. A summary of the various components of the algorithm, as well as the surface rain rates, is given. The algorithm employs the cloud model to provide a consistent and objectively generated source of detailed microphysical information as the underpinnings to an inversion-based perturbative retrieval scheme.
Document ID
19930039726
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mugnai, Alberto
(CNR Ist. di Fisica dell'Atmosfera, Frascati, Italy)
Smith, Eric A.
(Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, United States)
Tripoli, Gregory J.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Applied Meteorology
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0894-8763
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
93A23723
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NATO-CRG-89/0894
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-991
CONTRACT_GRANT: DE-FC05-85ER-250000
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-1602
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Public
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