Arthur Y. Hou

TL;DR: The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international satellite mission specifically designed to set a new standard for the measurement of precipitation from space and to provide a new generation of global rainfall and snowfall observations in all parts of the world every 3 h as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched on 27 November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 days after the launch as mentioned in this paper, and much progress has been made in the calibration of the sensors, the improvement of the rainfall algorithms, and applications of these results to areas such as data assimilation and model initialization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the many aspects of precipitation measurement that are relevant to providing an accurate global assessment of this important environmental parameter, including ground data, satellite estimates and numerical models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 30-day running means of A and T from each time series was subtracted from the data to separate the local effect from the effect of slowly changing large-scale conditions, which has the potential to spuriously extrapolate intraseasonal and seasonal variations to even longer time scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adaptive infrared iris that opens and closes in order to control the OLR (outgoing longwave radiation) in response to changes in surface temperature was proposed.