AIRS/AMSU/HSB precipitation estimates
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-Precipitation rates (mm/h) with 15and 50-km horizontal resolution are among the initial products of AIRS/AMSU/HSB. They will help identify the meteorological state of the atmosphere and any AIRS soundings potentially contaminated by precipitation. These retrieval methods can also be applied to the AMSU 23-191 GHz data from operational weather satellites such as NOAA-15, -16, and -17. The global extension and calibration of these methods are subjects for future research. The precipitation-rate estimation method presented is based on the opaque-channel approach described by Staelin and Chen [1], but it utilizes more channels (17) and training data, and infers 54-GHz band radiance perturbations at 15-km resolution. The dynamic range now reaches 100 mm/h. The method utilizes neural networks trained using NEXRAD precipitation estimates for 38 coincident rainy orbits of NOAA-15 AMSU data obtained over the eastern United States and coastal waters during a full year. The rms discrepancies between AMSU and NEXRAD were evaluated for the following NEXRAD rain-rate categories: <0.5, 0.5-1, 1-2, 2-4, 4-8, 8-16, 16-32, and >32 mm/h. The rms discrepancies for the 3790 15-km pixels not used to train the estimator were 1.0, 2.0, 2.3, 2.7, 3.5, 6.9, 19.0, and 42.9 mm/h, respectively. The 50-km retrievals were computed by spatially filtering the 15-km retrievals. The rms discrepancies over the same categories for all 4709 50-km pixels flagged as potentially precipitating were 0.5, 0.9, 1.1, 1.8, 3.2, 6.6, 12.9, and 22.1 mm/h, respectively. Representative images of precipitation for tropical, mid-latitude, and snow conditions suggest the methods potential global applicability. Index terms Measurement, microwave propagation, microwave radiometry, precipitation, remote sensing, rain rate, weather satellite, hydrology.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing
دوره 41 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003