Abstract
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) (Ku-and Ka-band, or 14 and 35 GHz) provides the capability to resolve the precipitation structure under moderate to heavy precipitation conditions. In this manuscript, the use of near-coincident observations between GPM and the CloudSat Profiling Radar (CPR) (W-band, or 94 GHz) are demonstrated to extend the capability of representing light rain and cold-season precipitation from DPR and the GPM passive microwave constellation sensors. These unique triple-frequency data have opened up applications related to cold-season precipitation, ice microphysics, and light rainfall and surface emissivity effects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 2264 |
Journal | Remote Sensing |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 9 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding: J.G. acknowledges the efforts by Ian Adams (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) for support of airborne data collection during the IMPACTS campaign, and support from NASA grant 80NSSC20K0087. G.P., P.S. and D.C. would like to thank the support from the RainCast study (ESA Contract No.4000125959/18/NL/NA) and from the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for Operational Hydrology and Water management (H SAF) Third Continuous and Operations Phase (CDOP-3). A.C. is supported by the program in Infrastructures, Transport Systems and Geomatics at the Department of Civil, Constructional, and Environmental Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. The PMM Research Program is acknowledged for supporting H SAF and GPM scientific collaboration through the approval of the no-cost proposal “H SAF and GPM: Precipitation algorithm development and validation activity”.
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Keywords
- CloudSat
- Emissiv-ity
- GPM
- Ice
- Microphysics
- Microwave
- Precipitation
- Radar
- Radiometer
- Snow
- TRMM