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 …

Satellite remote sensing of precipitation and the terrestrial water cycle in a changing climate

V Levizzani, E Cattani - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The water cycle is the most essential supporting physical mechanism ensuring the existence
of life on Earth. Its components encompass the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The cycle is …

Assessment of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for Snowfall Retrieval in High Latitudes Using CloudSat and Machine …

MR Ehsani, A Behrangi, A Adhikari… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation retrieval is a challenging topic, especially in high latitudes (HL), and current
precipitation products face ample challenges over these regions. This study investigates the …

Comparative assessment of snowfall retrieval from microwave humidity sounders using machine learning methods

A Adhikari, MR Ehsani, Y Song… - Earth and Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate quantification of snowfall rate from space is important but has remained difficult.
Four years (2007–2010) of NOAA‐18 Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) data are trained …

Applications of a CloudSat-TRMM and CloudSat-GPM satellite coincidence dataset

FJ Turk, SE Ringerud, A Camplani, D Casella… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar
(DPR)(Ku-and Ka-band, or 14 and 35 GHz) provides the capability to resolve the …

Comparison of the GPM IMERG final precipitation product to RADOLAN weather radar data over the topographically and climatically diverse Germany

T Ramsauer, T Weiß, P Marzahn - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Precipitation measurements provide crucial information for hydrometeorological
applications. In regions where typical precipitation measurement gauges are sparse …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic Weather Satellite Sensitivity to Supercooled Liquid Water in Snowfall Conditions

A Camplani, P Sanò, D Casella, G Panegrossi… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study is to highlight the issue of missed supercooled liquid water (SLW)
detection in the current radar/lidar derived products and to investigate the potential of the …

What can we learn from the CloudSat radiometric mode observations of snowfall over the ice-free ocean?

A Battaglia, G Panegrossi - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The quantification of global snowfall by the current observing system remains challenging,
with the CloudSat 94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) providing the current state-of-the-art …

Adapting passive microwave-based precipitation algorithms to variable microwave land surface emissivity to improve precipitation estimation from the GPM …

FJ Turk, SE Ringerud, Y You… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
A fully global satellite-based precipitation estimate that can transition across the changing
Earth surface and complex land/water conditions is an important capability for many …

Cross validation of active and passive microwave snowfall products over the continental United States

K Mroz, M Montopoli, A Battaglia… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Surface snowfall rate estimates from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's
Core Observatory sensors and the CloudSat radar are compared to those from the Multi …