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2007 | Buch

Measuring Precipitation From Space

EURAINSAT and the Future

herausgegeben von: Vincenzo Levizzani, Peter Bauer, F. Joseph Turk

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buchreihe : Advances in Global Change Research

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Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for the improvement of the rainfall product quality. Special attention is given to the applications to monitoring and forecasting weather events and to climate monitoring in a frame of growing public interest.

No other book can offer to scientists, Ph.D. or equivalent students, professionals in environmental disciplines, and decision makers such a powerful tool to understand the basics of remote sensing for precipitation, to make use of existing products and to have a glimpse of the near future missions and instruments.

Other categories of readers will find in the book reference material for their questions on weather and climate applications. The essays are written by the most qualified experts in the field of passive and active remote sensing, cloud and mesoscale modelling, validation and space mission planning. Top academic and research institutions and space agencies have concurred to the first joint effort ever.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Climate Monitoring

Frontmatter
1. European Commission Research for Global Climate Change Studies: Towards Improved Water Observations and Forecasting Capability
Michel Schouppe, Anver Ghazi
2. Is Man Actively Changing the Environment
Daniel Rosenfeld
3. The Global Precipitation Climatology Project
Arnold Gruber, Bruno Rudolf, Mark M. Morrissey, Toshiyuki Kurino, John E. Janowiak, Ralph R. Ferraro, Richard Francis, Albert Chang, Robert F. Adler
4. Oceanic Precipitation Variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Phillip A. Arkin, Heidi M. Cullen, Pinping Xie
5. Global Satellite Datasets: Data Availability for Scientists and Operational Users
Gilberto A. Vicente, the GES DAAC Hydrology Data Support Team

Cloud Studies in Support of Satellite Rainfall Measurements

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6. Cloud Top Microphysics as a Tool for Precipitation Measurements
Daniel Rosenfeld
7. The Retrieval of Cloud Top Properties Using VIS-IR Channels
M. J. Costa, Vincenzo Levizzan, Elsa Cattani, Samantha Melani
8. Cloud Microphysical Properties Retrieval During Intense Biomass Burning Events Over Africa and Portugal
Maria João Costa, Elsa Cattani, Vincenzo Levizzan, Ana Maria Silva
9. 3D Effects in Microwave Radiative Transport Inside Precipitating Clouds: Modeling and Applications
Dong-Bin Shin, Alessandro Battaglia, Franco Prodi, Federico Porcù
10. Cloud Microphysical Properties from Remote Sensing of Lightning within the Mediterranean
Claudia Adamo, Robert Solomon, Carlo M. Medaglia, Stefano Dietrich, Alberto Mugnai
11. The Worth of Long-Range Lightning Observations on Overland Satellite Rainfall Estimation
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, Themis G. Chronis
12. Neural Network tools for Satellite Rainfall Estimation
Francisco J. Tapiador, Chris Kidd, Vincenzo Levizzani, Frank S. Marzano

Rainfall Algorithms

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13. Passive Microwave Precipitation Measurements at Mid- and High Latitudes
Ralf Bennartz
14. The Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF): Description and Current Applications
William S. Olson, Song Yang, John E. Stout, Mircea Grecu
15. Past, Present and Future of Microwave Operational Rainfall Algorithms
Ralph R. Ferraro
16. Space-Borne Radar Algorithms
Toshio Iguchi
17. Rain Type Classification Algorithm
Jun Awaka, Toshio Iguchi, Ken'ichi Okamoto
18. Dual-Wavelength Radar Algorithm
Kenji Nakamura, Toshio Iguchi
19. A Next-generation Microwave Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm for use by TRMM and GPM
Christian Kummerow, Hirohiko Masunaga, Peter Bauer

Blended Techniques

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20. The University of Birmingham Global Rainfall Algorithms
Chris Kidd, Francisco J. Tapiador, Victoria Sanderson, Dominic Kniveton
21. Multivariate Probability Matching for Microwave Infrared Combined Rainfall Algorithm (MICRA)
Frank S. Marzano, Domenico Cimini, F. Joseph Turk
22. Toward Improvements in Short-time Scale Satellite-Derived Precipitation Estimates using Blended Satellite Techniques
F. Joseph Turk, Amita V. Mehta
23. Global Rainfall Analyses at Monthly and 3-h Time Scales
George J. Huffman, Robert F. Adler, Scott Curtis, David T. Bolvin, Eric J. Nelkin
24. CPC MORPHING Technique (CMORPH)
Robert J. Joyce, John E. Janowiak, Pingping Xie, Phillip A. Arkin
25. CMAP: The CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation
Pingping Xie, Phillip A. Arkin, John E. Janowiak
26. Rainfall Estimation Using a Cloud Patch Classification Map
Kuo-Lin Hsu, Yang Hong, Soroosh Sorooshian

Validating Satellite Rainfall Measurements

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27. Methods for Verifying Satellite Precipitation Estimates
Elizabeth E. Ebert
28. Assessment of Satellite Rain Retrieval Error Propagation in the Prediction of Land Surface Hydrologi
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
29. EURAINSAT Algorithm Validation and Intercomparison Exercise
Martina Kästner
30. Ground Validation for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project
Mark M. Morrissey, Scott Greene
31. Validation of Rainfall Algorithms at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center
John Janowiak
32. Ground Networks: Are We Doing the Right Thing?
Witold F. Krajewski

Modeling Precipitation Processes and Data Assimilation for Nwp

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33. Aerosol Impact on Precipitation from Convective Clouds
Alexander Khain, Daniel Rosenfeld, Alexander Pokrovsky
34. The Wisconsin Dynamic/Microphysical Model (WISCDYMM) and the use of it to Interpret Satellite-Observed Storm Dynamics
Pao K. Wang
35. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Global Rainfall Data Assimilation Experimentation
Peter Bauer, Philippe Lopez, Emmanuel Moreau, Frédéric Chevallier, Angela Benedetti, Marine Bonazzola
36. Rainfall Assimilation into Limited Area Models
Andrea Buzzi, Silvio Davolio
37. Implementing an Operational Chain: The Florence LaMMA Laboratory
Alberto Ortolani, Andrea Antonini, Graziano Giuliani, Samantha Melani, Francesco Meneguzzo, Gianni Messer, Andrea Orlandi, Massimiliano Pasqui

Applications to Monitoring Weather Events

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38. Satellite Precipitation Algorithms for Extreme Precipitation Events
Roderick A. Scofield, Robert J. Kuligowski
39. Application of a Blended MW-IR Rainfall Algorithm to the Mediterranean
Francesca Torricella, Vincenzo Levizzani, F. Joseph Turk
40. Retrieving Precipitation with GOES, Meteosat, and Terra/MSG at the Tropics and Mid-latitudes
Christoph Reudenbach, Thomas Nauss, Jürg Bendix
41. Model and Satellite Analysis of the November 9–10, 2001 Algeria Flood
Carlo M. Medaglia, Sabrina Pinori, Claudia Adamo, Stefano Dietrich, Sabatino Di Michele, Federico Fierli, Alberto Mugnai, Eric A. Smith, Gregory J. Tripoli
42. Modeling Microphysical Signatures of Extreme Events in the Western Mediterranean to Provide a Basis for Diagnosing Precipitation from Space
Carlo M. Medaglia, Giulia Panegrossi, Stefano Dietrich, Alberto Mugnai, Eric A. Smith, Gregory J. Tripoli
43. Online Visualization and Analysis: A New Avenue to use Satellite Data for Weather, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Research and Applications
Zhong Liu, Hualan Rui, William L. Teng, Long S. Chiu, Gregory Leptoukh, Gilberto A. Vicente

The Present and Future of Satellite Platforms

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44. The Space-Based Component of the World Weather Watch's Global Observing System (GOS)
Donald E. Hinsman, James F. W. Purdom
45. The Meteosat and EPS/Metop Satellite Series
Johannes Schmetz, Dieter Klaes, Alain Ratier, Rolf Stuhlmann
46. The Evolution of the NOAA Satellite Platforms
W. Paul Menzel
47. Japan's Role in the Present and Future Satellite Observation for Global Water Cycle Research
Riko Oki, Yoji Furuhama
48. International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview
Eric A. Smith, Ghassem Asrar, Yoji Furuhama, Amnon Ginati, Alberto Mugnai, Kenji Nakamura, Robert F. Adler, Ming-Dah Chou, Michel Desbois, John F. Durning, Jared K. Entin, Franco Einaudi, Ralph R. Ferraro, Rodolfo Guzzi, Paul R. Houser, Paul H. Hwang, Toshio Iguchi, Paul Joe, Ramesh Kakar, Jack A. Kaye, Masahiro Kojima, Christian Kummerow, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Vincenzo Levizzani, Naimeng Lu, Amita V. Mehta, Carlos Morales, Pierre Morel, Tetsuo Nakazawa, Steven P. Neeck, Ken'ichi Okamoto, Riko Oki, Garudachar Raju, J. Marshall Shepherd, Joanne Simpson, Byung- Ju Sohn, Eric F. Stocker, Wei-Kuo Tao, Jacques Testud, Gregory J. Tripoli, Eric F. Wood, Song Yang, Wenjian Zhang
49. Snowfall Measurements by Proposed European GPM Mission
Alberto Mugnai, Sabatino Di Michele, Eric A. Smith, Fabrizio Baordo, Peter Bauer, Bizzarro Bizzarri, Paul Joe, Christopher Kidd, Frank S. Marzano, Alessandra Tassa, Jacques Testud, Gregory J. Tripoli
50. Observing Rain by Millimetre–Submillimetre Wave Sounding from Geostationary Orbit
Bizzarro Bizzarri, Albin J. Gasiewsk, David H. Staelin
51. The CGMS/WMO Virtual Laboratory for Education and Training in Satellite Matters
James F. W. Purdom, Donald E. Hinsman
52. The International Precipitation Working Group: A Bridge Towards Operational Applications
Vincenzo Levizzani, Arnold Gruber
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Measuring Precipitation From Space
herausgegeben von
Vincenzo Levizzani
Peter Bauer
F. Joseph Turk
Copyright-Jahr
2007
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4020-5835-6
Print ISBN
978-1-4020-5834-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6