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  • Ohsaki, Y., K. Nakamura, and T. Takeda, 1999: Simulation-based error analysis on the comparison between rainfall rates measured by a spaceborne radar and ground-based instruments. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 77, pp. 673-686.

  • Ohsaki, Yuji, Kenji Nakamura, 1996: A Simulation Study of the Bias Error Analysis of Mean Rainfall Rates Measured with Spaceborne Radar. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 762–768.

  • Oki, R., K. Furukawa, S. Shimizu, Y. Suzuki, S. Satoh, H. Hanado, K. Okamoto, and K. Nakamura, 1998: Preliminary results of TRMM: Part I, A comparison of PR with ground observations. Marine Technology Society Journal: Vol. 32, pp. 13-23.

  • Oki, Riko, Akimasa Sumi, 1994: Sampling Simulation of TRMM Rainfall Estimation Using RadarñAMeDAS Composites. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 1597–1608.

  • Oki, Riko, Akimasa Sumi, David A. Short, 1997: TRMM Sampling of Radar–AMeDAS Rainfall Using the Threshold Method. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1480–1492.

  • Oki, Taikan, Katumi Musiake, 1994: Seasonal Change of the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over Japan and Malaysia. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 1445–1463.

  • Olson, William S., Christian D. Kummerow, Gerald M. Heymsfield, Louis Giglio, 1996: A Method for Combined PassiveñActive Microwave Retrievals of Cloud and Precipitation Profiles. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 1763–1789.

  • Olson, William S., Christian D. Kummerow, Ye Hong, Wei-Kuo Tao, 1999: Atmospheric Latent Heating Distributions in the Tropics Derived from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometer Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 633–664.

  • Pal, P.K., W.J, Prakash, P.K. Thapliyal, and C.M. Kishtawa, 1999: A technique of rainfall assimilation for dynamic extended range monsoon prediction. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics: Vol. 71, pp. 157-168.

  • Panegrossi, Giulia, Stefano Dietrich, Frank S. Marzano, Alberto Mugnai, Eric A. Smith, Xuwu Xiang, Gregory J. Tripoli, Pao K. Wang, J. P. V. Poiares Baptista, 1998: Use of Cloud Model Microphysics for Passive Microwave-Based Precipitation Retrieval: Significance of Consistency between Model and Measurement Manifolds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1644–1673.

  • Prabhakara C., R. Iacovazzi, J.A. Weinman, and G. Dalu, 2000: A TRMM microwave radiometer rain rates estimation method with convective and stratiform discrimination. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 78, pp. 241-258.

  • Prabhakara, C., R. Iacovazzi, R. Oki, and J.A. Weinman, 1999: A microwave radiometer rain retrieval method applicable to land areas. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 77, pp. 859-871.

  • Prabhakara, C., R. Meneghini, D.A. Short, J.A. Weinman, R. Iacovazzi, R. Oki, and M. Cadeddu, 1998: A TRMM Microwave radiometer rain retrieval method based on fractional rain area. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 76, pp. 765-781.

  • Petersen, Walter A.; Christian, Hugh J.; Rutledge, Steven A. 26 July 2005 TRMM observations of the global relationship between ice water content and lightning Geophys. Res. Lett.,  Vol. 32, No. 14, L14819 10.1029/2005GL023236

  • Petersen, Walter A., Steven A. Rutledge, Richard E. Orville, 1996: Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Observations from TOGA COARE: Selected Results and Lightning Location Algorithms. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 124, No. 4, pp. 602–620.

  • Petty, Grant W., 1995: Frequencies and Characteristics of Global Oceanic Precipitation from Shipboard Present-Weather Reports. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 76, No. 9, pp. 1593–1716.

  • Petty, Grant W., 1999: Prevalence of Precipitation from Warm-Topped Clouds over Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific. Journal of Climate: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 220–229.

  • Petty, Grant W., Kristina B. Katsaros, 1990: Precipitation Observed over the South China Sea by the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer during Winter MONEX. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 273–287.

  • Petty, Grant W., Kristina B. Katsaros, 1992: Nimbus-7 SMMR Precipitation Observations Calibrated against Surface Radar during TAMEX. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 489–505.

  • Pickart, Robert S., Nelson G. Hogg, William M. Smethie, Jr., 1989: Determining the Strength of the Deep Western Boundary Current Using the Chlorofluoromethane Ratio. Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 940–951.

  • Polyak, Ilya, Gerald North, 1995: The Second-Moment Climatology of the GATE Rain Rate Data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 535–654.

  • Polyak, Ilya, Gerald R. North, Juan B. Valdes, 1994: Multivariate SpaceñTime Analysis of PRE-STORM Precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1079–1087.

  • Prabhakara, C., G. Dalu, G.L. Liberti, J.J. Nucciarone, R. Suhasini, 1992: Rainfall Estimation over Oceans from SMMR and SSM/I Microwave Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 532–552.

  • Priestley, Kory J., Bruce R. Barkstrom, Robert B. Lee III, Richard N. Green, Susan Thomas, Robert S. Wilson, Peter L. Spence, Jack Paden, D. K. Pandey, Aiman Al-Hajjah, 2000: Postlaunch Radiometric Validation of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Proto-Flight Model on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Spacecraft through 1999. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2249–2258.

  • Prigent, Catherine; Defer, Eric; Pardo, Juan R.; Pearl, Cindy; Rossow, William B.; Pinty, Jean-Pierre  24 February 2005 Relations of polarized scattering signatures observed by the TRMM Microwave Instrument with electrical processes in cloud systems Geophys. Res. Lett.,  Vol. 32, No. 4, L04810 10.1029/2004GL022225

  • Puri, Kamal, M.J. Miller, 1990: The Use of Satellite Data in the Specification of Convective Heating for Diabatic Initialization and Moisture Adjustment in Numerical Weather Prediction Models. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 67–93.

  • Puri, Kamal, Noel E. Davidson, 1992: The Use of Infrared Satellite Cloud Imagery Data as Proxy Data for Moisture and Diabatic Heating in Data Assimilation. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 120, No. 10, pp. 2329–2341.

  • Determination of Oceanic Rain Rate and Rain Cell Structure from Altimeter Waveform Data. Part I: Theory. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 1361–1378.

  • Rajopadhyaya, Deepak K., Peter T. May, Robert C. Cifelli, Susan K. Avery, Christopher R. Willams, Warner L. Ecklund, Kenneth S. Gage, 1998: The Effect of Vertical Air Motions on Rain Rates and Median Volume Diameter Determined from Combined UHF and VHF Wind Profiler Measurements and Comparisons with Rain Gauge Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 1306–1319.

  • Randall, David, Christian D. Kummerow, 2000: PREFACE. Journal of Climate: Vol. 13, No. 23, pp. 4069–4069.

  • Rasmusson, Eugene M., Phillip A. Arkin, 1993: A Global View of Large-Scale Precipitation Variability. Journal of Climate: Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 1495–1522.

  • Anita D. Rapp, Christian Kummerow, Wesley Berg and Brian Griffith. 2005: An Evaluation of the Proposed Mechanism of the Adaptive Infrared Iris Hypothesis Using TRMM VIRS and PR Measurements. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 20, pp. 4185–4194.

  • Raymond, William H., William S. Olson, Geary Callan, 1995: Diabatic Forcing and Initialization with Assimilation of Cloud Water and Rainwater in a Forecast Model. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 366–382.
  • Richard W. Reynolds, Chelle L. Gentemann and Frank Wentz. 2004: Impact of TRMM SSTs on a Climate-Scale SST Analysis. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 15, pp. 2938–2952.


  • Rickenbach, Thomas M., 1999: Cloud-Top Evolution of Tropical Oceanic Squall Lines from Radar Reflectivity and Infrared Satellite Data. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 127, No. 12, pp. 2951–2976.

  • Robinson M., M.S. Kulie, D.S. Silberstein, D.A. Marks, D.B. Wolff, E. Amatai, B.S. Ferrier, B.L. Fisher, and J. Wang, 2000: Evolving improvements to TRMM ground validation of rainfall estimates. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B-Hydrology Oceans and Atmosphere: Vol. 25, pp. 971-976.

  • Rodgers, Edward, William Olson, Jeff Halverson, Joanne Simpson, Harold Pierce, 2000: Environmental Forcing of Supertyphoon Paka’s (1997) Latent Heat Structure. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 1983–2006.

  • Roebber, Paul J., 1993: A Diagnostic Case Study of Self-Development as an Antecedent Conditioning Process in Explosive Cyclogenesis. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 121, No. 4, pp. 976–1006.

  • Rosenfeld, D., 1999: TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall. Geophysical Research Letters: Vol. 26, pp. 3105-3108.

  • Rosenfeld D., E. Amitai, and D. B. Wolff,1995: Improved Accuracy of Radar WPMM Estimated Rainfall Upon Application of Objective Classification Criteria. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 34, 212-223.

  • Rosenfeld D., E. Amitai, and D. B. Wolff, 1995: Classification of Rain Regimes by the 3-Dimensional Properties of Reflectivity Fields. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 34, 198-211.

  • Rosenfeld D. and E. Amitai, 1998: Comparison of WPMM vs. regression for evaluating Z-R relationships. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 37, 1241-1249.

  • Rosenfeld D., D. B. Wolff and D. Atlas, 1993: General probability-matched relations between radar reflectivity and rain rate. Journal of Applied Meteorology., 32, 50-72.

  • Rosenfeld D., D. B. Wolff and E. Amitai, 1994: The window probability matching method for rainfall measurements with radar. The Journal of Applied Meteorology, 33, 683-693.

  • Rosenfeld D. and I. M. Lensky, 1998: Spaceborne sensed insights into precipitation formation processes in continental and maritime clouds. The Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 79, 2457-2476.

  • Rosenfeld D., 2000: Suppression of Rain and Snow by Urban and Industrial Air Pollution. Science, 287 (5459), 1793-1796.

  • Rosenfeld, Daniel, David Atlas, David B. Wolff, Eyal Amitai, 1992: Beamwidth Effects on Z-R Relations and Area-integrated Rainfall. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 454–464.
  • Biswadev Roy, Jeffrey B. Halverson and Junhong Wang. 2004: The Influence of Radiosonde “Age” on TRMM Field Campaign Soundings Humidity Correction. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 470–480.


  • Ruf, Christopher S., Kultegin Aydin, Savyasachee Mathur, Justin P. Bobak, 1996: 35-GHz Dual-Polarization Propagation Link for Rain-Rate Estimation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 419–425.

  • Rutledge, Steven A., Earle R. Williams, Thomas D. Keenan, 1992: The Down Upper Doppler and Electricity Experiment (DUNDEE): Overview and Preliminary Results. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 3–16.


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