Impacts of SSM/I retrieved rainfall rates on numerical prediction of a...

Monthly Weather Review;  June 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) retrieved rainfall rates were assimilated into a limited-area...for this study. The SSM/I retrieved rainfall rates within 888 km (8 deg latitude) of the...model generates the SSM/I-observed rainfall rates. This scheme is applied through two...

Attenuation-Based Estimates of Rainfall Rates Aloft with Vertically...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......rainfall rate profiles and layer-averaged rainfall rates, R^sub a^, from radar reflectivity...radar receivers are not saturated, the rainfall rates can be retrieved using cloud radars...agreement with surface estimates of rainfall rates. (ProQuest Information and Learning...

Research shows stormy weather linked with sea surface temperature

Xinhua News Agency;  January 31, 2008 ;     400 words ...Research shows stormy weather linked with sea surface temperature LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Stormy weather is linked with rising sea surface temperature which causes more frequent...hurricane activity, and found that local sea surface warming was responsible for around 40...

Effects of cloud parameterization on the simulation of climate changes in...

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......2002) ABSTRACT The influence of the sea surface temperature distribution on cloud feedbacks...fluxes obtained by prescribing observed sea surface temperatures (MODELII'), and the other...obtained by prescribing the simulated sea surface temperature of a coupled ocean-atmosphere...

The Probability Distribution of Sea Surface Wind Speeds. Part II: Dataset...

Journal of Climate;  February 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The statistical structure of sea surface wind speeds is considered, both in terms...made of the statistical structure of sea surface wind speed data from four different...details of the statistical structure of sea surface wind speeds differs between the datasets...

The effect of ocean currents on sea surface temperature anomalies

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......correlations between observed anomalies in sea surface temperature and height are investigated...over the northern oceans: Driving the sea surface temperature. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 22...Reference] Frankignoul, C., 1985: Sea surface temperature anomalies, planetary waves...

The Southern Ocean Waves Experiment. Part III: Sea Surface Slope...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......1 km, allowing determination of the sea surface mean square slope (mss), the directional...characterize Ka-band radar backscatter from the sea surface within 25 of nadir might be possible...mm wavelength) and the range to the sea surface at 64 cross-track positions at measurement...

Sea surface warming contributes to increased hurricane activities: Report

Xinhua News Agency;  February 1, 2008 ;     330 words ...Sea surface warming contributes to increased hurricane...College London (UCL) have found that local sea surface warming wasresponsible for around 40...the two main hurricane predictors -- sea surface temperature and near-surface trade wind...

The effect of instrument polarization sensitivity on sea surface remote...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......partially polarized source such as the sea surface. At off-nadir incidence angles...3.6 (mu)m), radiance from the sea surface is partially vertically polarized, because the vertically polarized sea surface emission exceeds the horizontally...

System design considerations for the retrieval of sea surface temperatures...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......improved accuracy in the retrieval of sea surface skin temperature (SSTs) from its Visible...over the capability to retrieve bulk sea surface temperature (SST,) that has been demonstrated...generation software and the multichannel sea surface temperature (MCSST) algorithms ...

Steven's 'Sea Surface Full of Clouds.' (Wallace Stevens)

The Explicator;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Because Sea Surface Full of Clouds illustrates unlimited...pointing out that a four-section Sea Surface would contain the 24 stanzas of the...Litz 48). The underlying themes of Sea Surface and the use of the number five in...

The Probability Distribution of Sea Surface Wind Speeds. Part I: Theory...

Journal of Climate;  February 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The probability distribution of sea surface wind speeds, w, is considered. Daily...the characterization of the moments of sea surface winds on a global scale. These observations...expansions of the joint distribution of the sea surface wind vector components. The significance...

Spatial and temporal extent of sea surface temperature modifications by...

Monthly Weather Review;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Spatial and Temporal Extent of Sea Surface Temperature Modifications by Hurricanes...Sea during the 1995 Season* ABSTRACT Sea surface temperature anomalies in the central...satellites were used to make 3-day composite sea surface temperature maps covering 22 deg -40...

Satellite-derived sea surface temperatures: Evaluation of GOES-8 and...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval accuracy...demonstrate the capability to retrieve sea surface temperature at better than I-K root-mean-sq...results. 1. Introduction Satellite sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval has been...

Picture of the month: Satellite imagery of sea surface temperature cooling...

Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......hurricane there is significant cooling of sea surface temperature (SST) (Hazelworth 1968...NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 satellites. This sea surface temperature image clearly shows a swath...sensitive to blackbody emission from the sea surface. Channels 4 and 5, and sometimes 3...