The variable nature of convection in the tropics and subtropics: A legacy of 16 years of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite

RA Houze Jr, KL Rasmussen, MD Zuluaga… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
For over 16 years, the Precipitation Radar of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
(TRMM) satellite detected the three‐dimensional structure of significantly precipitating …

Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

Where are the lightning hotspots on Earth?

RI Albrecht, SJ Goodman, DE Buechler… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Previous total lightning climatology studies using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
(TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) observations were reported at coarse resolution …

Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge

B Bookhagen, DW Burbank - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and
snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established because this remote region lacks a …

Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day

C Aybar, C Fernández, A Huerta… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new gridded rainfall dataset available for Peru is introduced, called PISCOp
V2. 1 (Peruvian Interpolated data of SENAMHI's Climatological and Hydrological …

Global precipitation measurement

C Kidd, G Huffman - Meteorological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The quantification of precipitation on a global scale is critical for applications ranging from
climate monitoring to water resource management. Conventional observations through …

Rainfall hotspots over the southern tropical Andes: Spatial distribution, rainfall intensity, and relations with large‐scale atmospheric circulation

JC Espinoza, S Chavez, J Ronchail… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Andes/Amazon transition is among the rainiest regions of the world and the
interactions between large‐scale circulation and the topography that determine its complex …

Evaluation of precipitation data sets along the Himalayan front

C Andermann, S Bonnet… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation is one of the main factors which controls surface processes and landscape
morphology. Large orogenic belts such as the Himalayas control precipitation distribution as …

[HTML][HTML] An appraisal of precipitation distribution in the high-altitude catchments of the Indus basin

ZH Dahri, F Ludwig, E Moors, B Ahmad, A Khan… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Scarcity of in-situ observations coupled with high orographic influences has prevented a
comprehensive assessment of precipitation distribution in the high-altitude catchments of …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of precipitating convective systems in the South Asian monsoon

U Romatschke, RA Houze - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Eight years of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar
(PR) data show how convective systems of different types contribute to precipitation of the …