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  • Ackerman, Steven A., 1996: Global Satellite Observations of Negative Brightness Temperature Differences between 11 and 6.7 µm. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 53, No. 19, pp. 2803–2812.

  • Adler, Robert F., Andrew J. Negri, Peter R. Keehn, Ida M. Hakkarinen, 1993: Estimation of Monthly Rainfall over Japan and Surrounding Waters from a Combination of Low-Orbit Microwave and Geosynchronous IR Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 335–356.

  • Adler, Robert F., George J. Huffman, David T. Bolvin, Scott Curtis, Eric J. Nelkin, 2000: Tropical Rainfall Distributions Determined Using TRMM Combined with Other Satellite and Rain Gauge Information. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2007–2023.

  • Adler, Robert F., Hwa-Young M. Yeh, N. Prasad, Wei-Kuo Tao, Joanne Simpson, 1991: Microwave Simulations of a Tropical Rainfall System with a Three-Dimensional Cloud Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 924–953.

  • Adler, Robert F., Ida M. Hakkarinen, 1991: Aircraft Multifrequency Passive Microwave Observations of Light Precipitation over the Ocean. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 201–220.

  • Amayenc, Paul, Jacques Testud, Mongi Marzoug, 1993: Proposal for a Spaceborne Dual-Beam Rain Radar with Doppler Capability. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 262–276.

  • Amayenc, Paul, Jean Philippe Diguet, Mongi Marzoug, Taoufik Tani, 1996: A Class of Single- and Dual-Frequency Algorithms for Rain-Rate Profiling from a Spaceborne Radar. Part II: Tests from Airborne Radar Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 142–164.

  • Amitai, Eyal, 1999: Relationships between Radar Properties at High Elevations and Surface Rain Rate: Potential Use for Spaceborne Rainfall Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 321–333.

  • Amitai, Eyal, 2000: Systematic Variation of Observed Radar Reflectivity–Rainfall Rate Relations in the Tropics. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2198–2208.

  • Anagnostou, E.N., W.F. Krajewski, and J.A. Smith 1999, Uncertainty quantification of mean-areal radar rainfall estimates, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 16(2), 206-215

  • Anagnostou, Emmanouil N., Andrew J. Negri, Robert F. Adler, 1999: Statistical Adjustment of Satellite Microwave Monthly Rainfall Estimates over Amazonia. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 38, No. 11, pp. 1590–1598.

  • Anagnostou, Emmanouil N., Witold F. Krajewski, 1999: Real-Time Radar Rainfall Estimation. Part II: Case Study. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 198–205.

  • Anyamba, E., E. Williams, J. Susskind, A. Fraser-Smith, M. Fullekrug, 2000: The Manifestation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in Global Deep Convection and in the Schumann Resonance Intensity. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1029–1044.

  • Aonashi, Kazumasa, Guosheng Liu, 2000: Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrievals Using TMI during the Baiu Period of 1998. Part I: Algorithm Description and Validation. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2024–2037.

  • Ardanuy, Philip E., H. Lee Kyle, Douglas Hoyt, 1992: Global Relationships among the Earth's Radiation Budget, Cloudiness, Volcanic Aerosols, and Surface Temperature. Journal of Climate: Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 1120–1139.

  • Arkin, Phillip A., Philip E. Ardanuy, 1989: Estimating Climatic-Scale Precipitation from Space: A Review. Journal of Climate: Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 1229–1238.

  • Arnaud, Yves, Michel Desbois, Joel Maizi, 1992: Automatic Tracking and Characterization of African Convective Systems on Meteosat Pictures. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 443–453.

  • Atlas, David, Carlton W. Ulbrich, 2000: An Observationally Based Conceptual Model of Warm Oceanic Convective Rain in the Tropics. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2165–2181.

  • Atlas, David, Daniel Rosenfeld, David B. Wolff, 1990: Climatologically Tuned Reflectivity-Rain Rate Relations and Links to Area-Time Integrals. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 29, No. 11, pp. 1120–1135.

  • Atlas, D. Rosenfeld and D. B. Wolff, 1993: On C-Band attenuation by tropical rainfall in Darwin, Australia using climatologically tuned Ze-R relations. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 32, 426-430.

  • Atlas, D., C. W. Ulbrich, F. D. Marks Jr., E. Amitai, and C. R. Williams, 1999: Systematic Variation of Drop Size and Radar-Rainfall Relations. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 6155-6169.

  • Atlas, D., C. W. Ulbrich, F. D. Marks Jr., R. A. Black, E. Amitai, P. T. Willis and C. E. Samsury, 2000: Partitioning Tropical Oceanic Convective and Stratiform Rains by Draft Strength. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 2259-2267.

  • Atlas, David, Peter G. Black, 1994: The Evolution of Convective Storms from Their Footprints on the Sea as Viewed by Synthetic Aperture Radar from Space. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 75, No. 7, pp. 1183–1190.

  • Atlas, David, Thomas L. Bell, 1992: The Relation of Radar to Cloud Area-Time Integrals and Implications for Rain Measurements from Space. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 120, No. 9, pp. 1997–2008.

  • Barkstrom, B.R., 1999: CERES: The start of the next generation of radiation measurements. Satellite Applications for Energy Budgets and Hydrological Cycle: Vol. 24, pp. 907-914.

  • Barnes, Robert A., William L. Barnes, Cheng-Hsuan Lyu, Joel M. Gales, 2000: An Overview of the Visible and Infrared Scanner Radiometric Calibration Algorithm. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 395–405.

  • Barros, A. P., G. Kim, E. Williams, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2004: Probing orographic controls in the Himalayas during the monsoon using satellite imagery. Nat. Haz. and Earth Sys. Sci., 4, 1-23.


  • Barros, A.P., M. Joshi, J. Putkonen, D.W. Burbank, 2000: A study of the 1999 monsoon rainfall in a mountainous region of in central Nepal using TRMM products and rain gauge observations. Geophysical Research Letters: Vol 27, pp. 3683-3686.

  • Bauer, M., and A.D. Del Genio, 2006: Composite analysis of winter cyclones in a GCM: Influence on climatological humidity. J. Clim., 19, 1652-1672.

  • Bauer, P., and R. Bennartz, 1998: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission microwave imaging capabilities for the observation of rain clouds. Radio Science: Vol. 33, pp. 335-349.

  • Bauer, Peter, A. Khain, A. Pokrovsky, R. Meneghini, C. Kummerow, F. Marzano, J. P. V. Poiares Baptista, 2000: Combined Cloud–Microwave Radiative Transfer Modeling of Stratiform Rainfall. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1082–1104.

  • Bauer, P., L. Schanz, L. Roberti, 1998: Correction of Three-Dimensional Effects for Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Convective Clouds. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 1619–1643.

  • Bauer, P., L. Schanz, R. Bennartz, P. Schlüssel, 1998: Outlook for Combined TMI–VIRS Algorithms for TRMM: Lessons from the PIP and AIP Projects. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1714–1729.

  • Baum, Bryan A., Bruce R. Barkstrom, 1993: Design and Implementation of a Prototype Data System for Earth Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Chemistry Data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 591–598.

  • Baum, Bryan A., Vasanth Tovinkere, Jay Titlow, Ronald M. Welch, 1997: Automated Cloud Classification of Global AVHRR Data Using a Fuzzy Logic Approach. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1519–1540.

  • Bellerby, Tim, Martin Todd, Dom Kniveton, Chris Kidd, 2000: Rainfall Estimation from a Combination of TRMM Precipitation Radar and GOES Multispectral Satellite Imagery through the Use of an Artificial Neural Network. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2115–2128.

  • Bell, Thomas L., 1987: A Space-Time Stochastic Model of Rainfall for Satellite Remote-Sensing Studies. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Vol. 92, No. D8, pp. 9631-9643.

  • Bell, Thomas L., Abdullah Abdullah, Russell L. Martin, and Gerald R. North, 1990: Sampling Errors for Satellite-Derived Tropical Rainfall: Monte Carlo Study Using a Space-Time Stochastic Model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Vol. 95, No. D3, pp. 2195-2205.

  • Bell, Thomas L., N. Reid, 1993: Detecting the Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall Using Satellite Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 311–322.

  • Bell, Thomas L., Prasun K. Kundu, 1996: A Study of the Sampling Error in Satellite Rainfall Estimates Using Optimal Averaging of Data and a Stochastic Model. Journal of Climate: Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 1251–1268.

  • Bell, Thomas L., Prasun K. Kundu, 2000: Dependence of Satellite Sampling Error on Monthly Averaged Rain Rates:Comparison of Simple Models and Recent Studies. Journal of Climate: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 449–462.

  • A. Benedetti, P. Lopez, E. Moreau, P. Bauer and V. Venugopal. 2005: Verification of TMI-Adjusted Rainfall Analyses of Tropical Cyclones at ECMWF Using TRMM Precipitation Radar. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 1677–1690.

  • Berg, Wesley, Robert Chase, 1992: Determination of Mean Rainfall from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Using a Mixed Lognormal Distribution. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 129–141.

  • Berg, Wesley, Susan K. Avery, 1994: Rainfall Variability over the Tropical Pacific from July 1987 through December 1991 as Inferred via Monthly Estimates from SSM/I. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 1468–1485.

  • Berg, Wesley, William Olson, Ralph Ferraro, Steven J. Goodman, Frank J. LaFontaine, 1998: An Assessment of the First- and Second-Generation Navy Operational Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1558–1575.

  • Wesley Berg, Tristan L'Ecuyer and Christian Kummerow. 2006: Rainfall Climate Regimes: The Relationship of Regional TRMM Rainfall Biases to the Environment. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 434–454.

  • B. C. Bhatt and K. Nakamura. 2005: Characteristics of Monsoon Rainfall around the Himalayas Revealed by TRMM Precipitation Radar. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 149–165.

  • G. S. Bhat, G. A. Vecchi and S. Gadgil. 2004: Sea Surface Temperature of the Bay of Bengal Derived from the TRMM Microwave Imager*+. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 1283–1290.


  • Biggerstaff, M. I., E.-K. Seo, S. Hristova-Veleva, and K.Y. Kim, 2006: Impact of cloud model microphysics on passive microwave retrievals of cloud properties. Part I: Model comparison using EOF analyses. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climate, 45, 930-954.


  • Biggerstaff, M. I., L. J. Wicker, J. Guynes, C. Ziegler, J. M. Straka, E.N. Rasmussen, A. Dogget IV, L. D. Carey, J. L. Schroeder, and C. Weiss, 2005: The Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching (SMART) Radar: A collaboration to enhance research and teaching. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 1263-1274.


  • Biggerstaff, Michael I., Steven A. Listemaa, 2000: An Improved Scheme for Convective/Stratiform Echo Classification Using Radar Reflectivity. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2129–2150.

  • Black, Peter G., John R. Proni, John C. Wilkerson, Christopher E. Samsury, 1997: Oceanic Rainfall Detection and Classification in Tropical and Subtropical Mesoscale Convective Systems Using Underwater Acoustic Methods. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 125, No. 9, pp. 2014–2042.

  • Boccippio, Dennis J., Steven J. Goodman, Stan Heckman, 2000: Regional Differences in Tropical Lightning Distributions. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2231–2248.

  • Boccippio, D. J., W. Koshak, R. Blakeslee, K. Driscoll, D. Mach, D. Buechler, W. Boeck, H. J. Christian, S. J. Goodman, 2000: The Optical Transient Detector (OTD): Instrument Characteristics and Cross-Sensor Validation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 441–458.

  • Bolen, Steven M., V. Chandrasekar, 2000: Quantitative Cross Validation of Space-Based and Ground-Based Radar Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2071–2079.

  • Brad L. Fisher. 2004: Climatological Validation of TRMM TMI and PR Monthly Rain Products over Oklahoma. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 519–535.


  • Braud, Isabelle, Philippe Crochet, Jean-Dominique Creutin, 1994: A Method for Estimating Mean Areal Rainfall Using Moving Trend Functions of the Intensities. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 1551–1561.

  • Kenneth P. Bowman. 2005: Comparison of TRMM Precipitation Retrievals with Rain Gauge Data from Ocean Buoys. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 178–190.



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