In this study, seven precipitation products (rain gauges, NEXRAD MPE, PERSIANN 0.25 degree, PERSIANN CCS-3hr, PERSIANN CCS-1hr, TRMM 3B42V7, and CMORPH) were used to force a physically-based distributed hydrologic model. The model was driven by these products to simulate the hydrologic response of a 1232 km watershed in the Guadalupe River basin, Texas. Storm events in 2007 were used to analyze...

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...

Satellite systems such as the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are complex and rely on the proper design and functioning of each of its many subsystems—satellite vehicle, ground validation (GV) sites, precipitation radar (PR), calibration, and retrieval algorithms—to ensure high quality data products. The retrieval algorithms employed in TRMM are based on mathematical models and assum...

Rainfall-runoff modelling is a useful tool for water resources management. This study presents a simple daily rainfall-runoff model, based on the water balance equation, which we apply to the 11,630 km2 Lesser Zab catchment in northeast Iraq. The model was forced by either observed daily rain gauge data from four stations in the catchment or satellite-derived rainfall estimates from two TRMM Mu...

In this study, ab initio atmospheric profiles generated through high-resolution calculations from the community weather model WRF, suitably matched up with both TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments of the TRMM satellite were used to compute simulated brightness temperatures (BTs) corresponding to SAPHIR frequencies, through an in-house polarized radiative transfe...

The Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) mission is part of NASA’s New Millennium Program (NMP). The EO-1 Attitude Control System (ACS) flight software was based on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) flight software, both of which were developed by the Hammers Company, Inc. Lessons learned during TRMM ACS software development led to a consolidated software development approach for the EO-1 ACS....

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...

This study proposes an approach that identifies and corrects for the vertical profile of reflectivity (VPR) by using Tropical Rainfall MeasuringMission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR) measurements in the region of Arizona and southern California, where the ground-based Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) finds difficulties in making reliable estimations of surface precipitation amounts becau...