Tropical oceanic precipitation frequency from Nimbus 5 microwave data

Kidder, Stanley Q.

Colorado State University. Dept. of Atmospheric Science.

1976

Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Fort Collins, Colo.

Microwave brightness temperature data from the Nimbus 5 satellite have been analyzed, using threshold brightness temperatures, to yield tropical oceanic precipitation frequencies for several classes of rainfall rates during the season December 1972 to February 1973.

"May, 1976."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46).

Rain and rainfall
Remote sensing
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Marine meteorology

Tropics

1 online resource (48 p.) : ill.

eng

Atmospheric science paper ; no. 248

UCSU5/8.10/248/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/10176/co:9801

761220882

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