Concern about anthropogenic climate change has heightened the need for accurate
information about spatial and temporal variations in precipitation at the Earth's surface …

Flash floods are among the most devastating natural weather hazards in the United States,
causing an average of more than 225 deaths and $4 billion in property damage annually. As …

Satellite derived rainfall products are useful for drought and flood early warning and
overcome the problem of sparse, unevenly distributed and erratic rain gauge observations …

The quantification of precipitation on a global scale is critical for applications ranging from
climate monitoring to water resource management. Conventional observations through …

The development of a combined infrared and passive microwave satellite rainfall estimation
technique is outlined. Infrared data from geostationary satellites are combined with polar …

Planning for drought relief and floods in develo** countries is greatly hampered by the
lack of a sufficiently dense network of weather stations measuring precipitation. In this paper …

Doms, G., J. Forstner, E. Heise, H.-J. Herzog, M. Raschendorfer, R. Schrodin, T. Reinhardt,
and G. Vogel, 2007: A description of the nonhydrostatic regional model LM (version 3.20) …

Satellite remote sensing is a viable source of observations of land surface hydrologic fluxes
and state variables, particularly in regions where in situ networks are sparse. Over the last …

This study focuses on the evaluation of 3-hourly 0.25°× 0.25° satellite-based rainfall
estimates produced by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite …

Estimates of precipitation from satellite data can provide timely information about rainfall in
regions for which data from rain gauge networks are sparse or unavailable entirely and for …