Stretching the Truth.(National Weather Service)(Brief Article)

Weatherwise;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......reflectivity. Drop-size distribution also determines rainfall rate. Many large raindrops correspond to a high rainfall rate (and high reflectivity), while drizzle drops correspond to a very low rainfall rate (and very low reflectivity). Clearly, there...

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

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  November 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......statistical characteristics of the rainfall rate itself, a triply stochastic random...it is shown that for a given mean rainfall rate, extensive averaging lengthens the...probability density function (pdf) of the rainfall rate, P(R). While the tail of the P(R) for...

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

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Rainfall-rate statistics are frequently derived on the basis of...accurately. Because of the limited availability of 1-min rainfall-rate data, conversion of available rainfall-rate distributions with longer integration times to the...

Spatial and seasonal variation of rain profiles over Asia observed by...

Journal of Climate;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) has...vertical gradient of rainfall rate using TRMM PR...increasing (DI) rainfall rate in the lower...vertical gradient of rainfall rate over Asia. The...evolution of precipitation ...

Shipboard radar rainfall patterns within the TOGA COARE IFA

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......discrepancy results from a higher average rainfall rate, when raining, as reported by the buoy ORG. However, rainfall rate statistics from the ORGs on the...have provided point measurements of rainfall rate (R) and total rainfall (Short et...

Frontal rainfall-rate distribution and some conclusions on the threshold...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......deviation of rainfall-rate pdf during this...Based on the rainfall-rate distribution...variance of rainfall-rate pdf; and the...regression slope with rainfall-rate threshold, observing...concluded that the rainfall-rate threshold, ...

Regional and Diurnal Variability of the Vertical Structure of...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......describe the vertical structure of precipitation systems in Africa. Five years of data are...Amazon. In all of tropical Africa, precipitation systems tend to be deeper and more intense...horizontal and vertical structure of precipitation systems. Precipitation Radar reflectivity...

Basis for a Rainfall Estimation Technique Using IR-VIS Cloud...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......between the life cycle of MCSs and the rainfall rate they produce, this relationship has...MCSs' life cycle and the magnitude of rainfall rate they produce. Numerous earlier studies...works discuss the use of satellite rainfall-rate estimation in the hydrological, meteorological...

The variability of tropical precipitation profiles and its impact on...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......deep-convective rain groups. The maximum rainfall rate occurs at a considerably lower altitude...show that, for the same near-surface rainfall rate, the pixel group with anomalously high...also found that, for a given surface rainfall rate, the brightness-temperature differences...

Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors Develop Self-Contained Ambient Noise...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 11, 2006 ;     308 words ......providing a set of data outputs from which wind velocity and rainfall rate at the surface may be derived." An abstract of the invention...output signal representative of the wind velocity and the rainfall rate at the surface. The apparatus further includes a preamplifier...

Classification and Characterization of Tropical Precipitation Based on...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......on which this study of tropical precipitation systems is based (some 21 231 km of high-altitu...extensively to describe tropical precipitation systems (e.g., Mohr et al. 1999; Cecil...measure of the intensity of deep precipitation systems, which relates to the fact that...

Validation of the rain profiling algorithm "ZPHI" from the C-band...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......to derive a retrieved profile of the rainfall rate. The retrieval accuracy lays in the...intercept parameter N^sup *^^sub 0^. The rainfall rate is further estimated through an R-A...rameter radar algorithms for estimating rainfall rate. Preprints, 28th Conf. on Radar Meteorology...

An adaptive neural network scheme for radar rainfall estimation from...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......relationship between radar measurements and rainfall rate. The relationship is derived directly...variability of the rainfall field. The rainfall rate R obtained on the ground can be potentially...potential relationship between the rainfall rate and the radar measurements from a ...

Organizational modes of midlatitude mesoscale convetive systems

Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......HSD90) considered 63 mesoscale precipitation systems (whose characteristics were quite...evaluated the degree to which observed precipitation systems conformed to a leading-- line trailing-stratifo...the mesoscale structure of severe precipitation systems in Switzerland. In addition ...

The operational GOES infrared rainfall estimation technique

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......temperatures collocated in time and space. The rainfall rate estimates are adjusted for different...to provide real-time instantaneous rainfall rate estimates, average hourly estimates...regimes. However, satellite-derived rainfall rate estimates are available every 15 min...