Proceedings of the KSRS Conference (대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2004.10a
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- Pages.178-181
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- 2004
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- 1226-9743(pISSN)
Observation of Precipitation by the TRMM Precipitation Radar
- Okamoto Ken'ichi (Osaka Prefecture University) ;
- Tanaka Tasuku (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) ;
- Iguchi Toshio (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
- Published : 2004.10.01
Abstract
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is an US-Japan joint space mission to observe tropical and subtropical rainfall. This satellite is equipped with the world's first precipitation radar that operates at 13.8 GHz. We introduce the TRMM precipitation radar (PR) system, along with the PR data processing and analysis algorithms, and some observation results obtained by the TRMM PR. It is concluded that the TRMM PR can give quite useful rainfall data for the understanding of global climate changes, meteorology, climatology, atmospheric science, and also for the studies of satellite communication.