The systematic utilisation of surface-based radar data to calibrate and validate satellite based (i.e. SSM/I) passive microwave rainfall algorithms over land is reported. A review of integration problems is considered. The carried out analysis showed that a local scale active microwave data may be used, in a local scale, to provide: useful information to face the beam-filling problem, which affects satellite measurements, and important characteristics of cloud structure in order to facilitate the inversion of passive microwave signatures.
Monitoring of Rainfall Integrating Active and Passive Microwave Sensors: Possibilities and Problems
Nativi S;
1997
Abstract
The systematic utilisation of surface-based radar data to calibrate and validate satellite based (i.e. SSM/I) passive microwave rainfall algorithms over land is reported. A review of integration problems is considered. The carried out analysis showed that a local scale active microwave data may be used, in a local scale, to provide: useful information to face the beam-filling problem, which affects satellite measurements, and important characteristics of cloud structure in order to facilitate the inversion of passive microwave signatures.File in questo prodotto:
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