Precipitation science : measurement, remote sensing, microphysics and modeling /: measurement, remote sensing, microphysics and modeling. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Silas Michaelides.
• Editors: Michaelides, Silas
• Contents: Section 1: Precipitation Observation and Climatology 1. Seasonal variation of drop size distribution: Influence on rainfall kinetic energy 2. A scaling law for the raindrop size distribution 3. The vertical structure of precipitation 4. Monsoon low level jet and the variation in thermal structure in wet and dry rainfall episodes 5. A statistical study of rainfall enhancement through an interplay of atmospheric rivers and cut off lows 6. The relationship between “atmospheric rivers" and extreme precipitation events 7. Capturing Extreme Precipitation Events 8. Synoptic climatological study on the long-term change in snowfall 9. A convective rain cell database based upon high-resolution radar images: unravelling convection patterns 10. Assessing frontal and extreme precipitation 11. Spatial Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall Based on National-Level Hourly Rain Gauge Data 12. Different types of El Niño events and their influence on summer precipitation 13. Analyzing satellite QPE underestimation over mountainous terrain: A NWP-based microphysical investigation 77 GHz radar for meteorological purposes Section 2: Remote Sensing 14. Snowfall microphysics and polarimetric features 15. Impacts to rainfall spatial properties at warmer temperatures 16. Lightning Observations and Geostationary Satellite Rainfall Estimations 17. Retrieving the sub-mesoscale variability of precipitation from passive space-borne instruments 18. Melting of hailstones 19. High resolution KE-maps with X-band mini weather radar 20. Detection of localized rainfall maxima and minima 21. Investigations of rainfall kinetic energy Evaluation of S-band radar rain rate retrieval algorithms and precipitation variability over a dense rain gauge network 22. Real-time country-wide rainfall derived from a large network of commercial microwave links in Germany 23. Monitoring spatial and temporal rainfall distribution by TRMM based methodological approaches, and assessing its advantages, disadvantages, limitations and uncertainties Section 3: Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) 24. Transitioning GPM GPROF to a Community Algorithm 25. Shallow Convective Snow from a GPM Passive Microwave perspective 26. Status and examples for the Version 07 IMERG Multi-Satellite Products 27. Recent results of the GPM mission in Japan 28. GPM rainfall estimates using ground radar observations and a Bayesian approach 29. Latent Heating from TRMM and GPM Satellite Measurements 30. A comparison of the GPROF Algorithm Results in the 2A-CLIM and 2A GPM Data Products 31. Development of the SAPHIR Precipitation Retrieval and Profiling Scheme (PRPS) (or section 2) 32. A Space-Based Perspective of Tropical Storms and Other Extremes in 2017 from GPM 33. Enhancing data assimilation of GPM observations 34. Challenges in Comparing Satellite Estimates of Falling Snow from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory and CloudSat 35. Snowfall retrieval algorithm for the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) exploiting CloudSat/CALIPSO observations 36. GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar Estimation of Precipitation Rate: A Deep Learning Approach 37. The GPM Radiometer Algorithm: V5 and Beyond 38. Comparison of GPM-CO and Ground-Based Radar Retrieval of Mass-Weighted Mean Rain Drop Diameter at Mid-Latitude 39. Performances of GPM satellite precipitation over the two major Mediterranean islands 40. Evaluation of High Resolution IMERG Satellite Precipitation over the Global Oceans using OceanRAIN GPM precipitation data as input for a real time extreme rainfall detection system 41. Assessment of Level 3 GPM over Oceans 42. Telemetric Rain Gauge Observations Section 4: Modelling, Forecasting, Data records and Simulations 43. Fundamental Data Records 44. Building complex models 45. Enhancing data Assimilation of GPM Observations 46. Nowcasting of anomalies 47. Machine Learning for Spatial Downscaling 48. Rainfall frequency analysis from short data records 49. Empirical Values and Assumptions in the Microphysics of Numerical Models 50. Constructing 3D ice cloud fields using radar and passive millimeter/submillimeter observations 51. Multi-Platform Hydrometeorological Analyses 52. Evaluation and Hydrologic Validation of Satellite-Based Precipitation Products 53. Ensemble Precipitation Algorithms
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 551.577; Precipitation (Meteorology); Precipitation forecasting
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128229378
• Related ISBNs: 9780128229736
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