The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors
| Autor: | Song Yang, Thomas T. Wilheit, Robert F. Adler, D.-B. Shin, Christian D. Kummerow, William S. Olson, Grant W. Petty, Ralph Ferraro, Yang Hong, Jeffrey R. McCollum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Meteorology. 40:1801-1820 |
| ISSN: | 1520-0450 0894-8763 |
| Popis: | This paper describes the latest improvements applied to the Goddard profiling algorithm (GPROF), particularly as they apply to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Most of these improvements, however, are conceptual in nature and apply equally to other passive microwave sensors. The improvements were motivated by a notable overestimation of precipitation in the intertropical convergence zone. This problem was traced back to the algorithm's poor separation between convective and stratiform precipitation coupled with a poor separation between stratiform and transition regions in the a priori cloud model database. In addition to now using an improved convective–stratiform classification scheme, the new algorithm also makes use of emission and scattering indices instead of individual brightness temperatures. Brightness temperature indices have the advantage of being monotonic functions of rainfall. This, in turn, has allowed the algorithm to better define the uncertainties needed by the sc... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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