Comparison of CloudSat and TRMM radar reflectivities

Comparisons of Reflectivities from the TRMM Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radars

CloudSat Radar Instrument Design and Development Status

The Cloud Profiling Radar is the key science instrument for the CloudSat Mission to acquire a global data set of vertical atmospheric cloud structure and its variability. CPR is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar that measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar. This sensor is expected to provide cloud measurements at a 500-m vertical resolution and a 1.5-km ho...

Validation of TRMM Precipitation Radar through Comparison of its Multi-Year Measurements to Ground-Based Radar

A procedure to accurately resample spaceborne and ground-based radar data is described, and then applied to the measurements taken from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and the ground-based Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D or WSR) for the validation of the PR measurements and estimates. Through comparisons with the well-calibrated, non-atte...

Trmm Precipitation Radar and Its Observation Results

あらまし 熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM:Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)は,1997年 11月 28日に打 ち上げられて以来,現在に至るまで,約 10 年以上も順調に,熱帯・亜熱帯降雨の観測を継続している.TRMM は,世界で初めてのアクティブフェイズドアレー方式の降雨レーダ(PR)を搭載しており,台風などをはじめ とする様々な降雨システムの三次元構造の観測にその威力を発揮してきた.論文では,TRMM 衛星のミッショ ンの目的,搭載センサの概要,TRMM降雨レーダシステムの概念設計時の諸検討,TRMM降雨レーダシステ ムの概要,TRMM降雨レーダデータ解析処理アルゴリズムシステム,様々な観測成果(台風,潜熱加熱など), TRMMを継承する全球降水観測計画(GPM:Global Precipitation Measurement)主衛星搭載 2周波...

Tropical cloud and precipitation regimes as seen from near-simultaneous TRMM, CloudSat, and CALIPSO observations and comparison with ISCCP

Although Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and CloudSat/CALIPSO fly in different orbits, they frequently cross each other so that for the period between 2006 and 2010, a total of 15,986 intersect lines occurred within 20 min of each other from 30°S to 30°N, providing a rare opportunity to study tropical cloud and precipitation regimes and their internal vertical structure from near-sim...