Variational retrieval of temperature and humidity profiles from TRMM...

Monthly Weather Review;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......assimilation of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite-derived surface rainfall rates from the Microwave...from the observed rainfall rates or having too...released by tropical rainfall plays a crucial...conventional rainfall measurements ...

CORRIGENDUM

Journal of Climate;  October 15, 2007 ;     350 words ......the processing that affected only the rainfall rates given in Field and Wood (2007). However...conveyor belt model to explain the rainfall rates remains unchanged upon correcting this...temperature could not be retrieved, where rainfall rates exceed 48 mm day^sup -1^ (Wentz and...

60- to 1-Min Rainfall-Rate Conversion: Comparison of Existing Prediction...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......desired 1-min distributions is needed. Several methods for converting 60-min rainfall rates to 1-min rainfall rates are tested against measured rainfall rates from tropical, high-rainfall-rate regions. Segal's method was found to perform...

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...this study. The SSM/I retrieved rainfall rates within 888 km (8 deg latitude) of...model generates the SSM/I-observed rainfall rates. This scheme is applied through...diabatic forward integration, the ...

WEEK'S WORTH OF SHOWERS BEGINS.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 21, 2004 ;     304 words ......this storm, the potential exists for rainfall rates high enough to cause significant runoff...least noon Sunday, the agency said, rainfall rates could approach half an inch per hour...Ventura counties. ``With such potential rainfall rates, the burn areas and locations immediately...

SHORT TERM FORECAST

United Press International;  December 13, 1999 ;     325 words ......and tappahannock... Through midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...virginia eastern shore through midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...and more wide spread around Midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...

Rainfall Profiling Using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......stratiform events with low-to-moderate rainfall rates (~5 mm h^sup -1^) to heavy convective rains with rainfall rates approaching 100 mm h^sup -1^. The...expressed in both instantaneous rainfall rates and in rainfall accumulations are...

Relative performance of automatic rain gauges under different rainfall...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......convective systems with extremely high rainfall rates (over 100 mm h^sup -1^), summertime...of order 0.9 or better using 1-min rainfall rates and biases of less than 10%; however...In particular, under extremely heavy rainfall rates (over 100 mm h^sup -1^), the disdrometer...

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...

Fluctuation properties of precipitation. Part V: Distribution of rain...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  November 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......frequencies of both smaller and larger rainfall rates. That is, because of clustering, drop rich regions boost the frequency of large rainfall rates, while the likelihood of light rainfall rates increases because of drop poor regions...

Radar Observations of Rainfall Variability Using Non-Rayleigh Signal...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......are widely recognized. In particular, rainfall rates can fluctuate widely in regions where...applied to quantify the variability in rainfall rates introduced by statistical heterogeneity...rainfall rate occur just where the rainfall rates are the largest and presumably where...

SHORT TERM FORECAST...ADDED COUNTIES

United Press International;  November 26, 1999 ;     256 words ......moderate rainfall. Northeast north carolina locations may see rainfall rates in excess of one quarter inch per hour through 930 pm...of farmville...through goochland...powhatan...and louisa. Rainfall rates will average between one tenth and one quarter inch per...

Modeling streamflows and flood delineation of the 2004 flood disaster,...

Pacific Science;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......wai'i's climate is characterized by high rainfall rates. However, due to the high permeability...heavy rainfall, around 1900 hours, rainfall rates recorded by the gauge at the Lyon Arboretum...hr), and 22.1 cm (6 hr). These large rainfall rates are estimated to occur with a return...

Mesoscale precipitation fields. Part I: Statistical analysis and...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the Twin Lakes WSR-88D underestimates rainfall rates by 28% on average. In turn, these errors...the analyzed rainfall field to adjust rainfall rates for nowcasting (0-3 h), to improve...Position Indicator (CAPPI) maps of rainfall rates at 2 km AGL. A map of Oklahoma, its...

Real-time radar rainfall estimation. Part I: Algorithm formulation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......and transformation of the estimated rainfall rates from polar coordinates to a Cartesian...advection correction to the gridded rainfall rates to minimize the temporal sampling effect...subsequently, aggregates the corrected rainfall rates to 1-hourly, 3-hourly, and storm-total...