The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been in operation for more than 7 years and providing distribution of rainfall throughout the Tropics using microwave observation from the Precipitation Radar (PR) and the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). PR, the first space-borne precipitation radar, provides height information based upon the time delay of the precipitation-backscattered...

In 2003, a network for hydrology of the semiarid region (REHISA in Portuguese) was created in Brazil. Since then, experimental watersheds in this region has been providing hydrometeorological data collected in automatic stations. However, the spatial distribution of these gauges might be insufficient to thoroughly understand the hydrological processes occurring in the area. Remotely sensed hydr...

Rainfall-triggered flood and landslide hazards pose significant threats to human lives infrastructure worldwide. This study aims evaluate the applicability of three satellite rainfall data sets—namely, CMORPH, GPM, TRMM—for prediction using a coupled hydrological-slope stability model. The spatial distribution annual from sets was similar that gauge rainfall, with an increasing trend north sout...

The evaluation of satellite precipitation products (SPPs) at regional and local scales is essential in improving satellite-based algorithms and sensors, as well as in providing valuable guidance when choosing alternative precipitation data for the local community. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) has made significant contributions to the development of various SPPs since its launc...

The combination of active and passive microwave sensors on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite have been used to construct observationally constrained databases of precipitation profiles for use in passive microwave rainfall retrieval algorithms over oceans. The method uses a very conservative approach that begins with the operational TRMM precipitation radar algorith...

Six rainfall datasets are compared over the Amazon basin, Northeast Brazil, and the Congo basin. These datasets include three gauge-only precipitation products from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC), and Brazilian Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Center (CLMNLS), and three combined gauge and satellite precipitation datasets from the CPC Merg...

Over the period of January 10 to the 18 2003, a student research team obtained snowfall measurements and weather data at Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL) in the vicinity of Steamboat Springs Colorado. These measurements were obtained in sequential collections of every three hours around the clock. The team registered four snowfall events with different water-equivalent precipitation amounts. Three-h...

Diabatic heating is diagnosed from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) circulation as a residue in the thermodynamic equation. The heating distribution is compared with the heating structure diagnosed from NCEP and 15-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-15) circulation and latent heating generated from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) observations using the convective–stratiform heating (CSH) ...