SNOWFALL DETECTABILITY OF NASA'S CLOUDSAT: THE FIRST CROSS-INVESTIGATION OF ITS 2C-SNOW-PROFILE PRODUCT AND NATIONAL MULTI-SENSOR MOSAIC QPE (NMQ) SNOWFALL DATA
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Snowfall Detectability of NASA’s CloudSat: The First Cross-Investigation of Its 2C-Snow-Profile Product and National Multi-Sensor Mosaic QPE (NMQ) Snowfall Data
This study investigates snowfall detectability and snowfall rate estimation with NASA’s CloudSat through the first evaluation of its newly released 2C-SNOW-PROFILE products using the National Mosaic and Multisensor QPE System (NMQ) snowfall products. The primary focus is on the detection and estimation of surface snowfall. The results show that the CloudSat product has good detectability of lig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Progress In Electromagnetics Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1559-8985
DOI: 10.2528/pier14030405