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A Consistent Treatment of Microwave Emissivity and Radar Backscatter for Retrieval of Precipitation over Water Surfaces(>19 GHz) can become opaque to the surface in rain and clouds, and although the surface emission is not fully obscured at lower frequencies, measurements at multiple frequencies near the C band are required to distinguish the surface and rain column contributions from the observed radiances ( Uhlhorn et al. 2007 ). However, the large footprints that are characteristic of spaceborne microwave radiometers at these frequencies are not optimal for retrievals of wind and precipitation due to
(>19 GHz) can become opaque to the surface in rain and clouds, and although the surface emission is not fully obscured at lower frequencies, measurements at multiple frequencies near the C band are required to distinguish the surface and rain column contributions from the observed radiances ( Uhlhorn et al. 2007 ). However, the large footprints that are characteristic of spaceborne microwave radiometers at these frequencies are not optimal for retrievals of wind and precipitation due to
Enhancing PMW Satellite Precipitation Estimation: Detecting Convective Classinformation is limited to the lightning-active clouds and era of GLM satellite sensors. Fig . 2. Distributions of total precipitation fraction as a function of DPR-combined (V5) convective fraction. The x axis ranges from zero (fully stratiform) to one (fully convective) in 0.2 increments. Light blue: current operational GPROF (V5) retrieval; gray: DPR-combined (V5); bright blue: GPROF when provided DPR-combined information on convective/stratiform flag. Given the four-decade-long effort in linking PMW
information is limited to the lightning-active clouds and era of GLM satellite sensors. Fig . 2. Distributions of total precipitation fraction as a function of DPR-combined (V5) convective fraction. The x axis ranges from zero (fully stratiform) to one (fully convective) in 0.2 increments. Light blue: current operational GPROF (V5) retrieval; gray: DPR-combined (V5); bright blue: GPROF when provided DPR-combined information on convective/stratiform flag. Given the four-decade-long effort in linking PMW
