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Robbie E. Hood
Researcher at Marshall Space Flight Center
Publications - 30
Citations - 1216
Robbie E. Hood is an academic researcher from Marshall Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radiometer & Microwave radiometer. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 30 publications receiving 1179 citations. Previous affiliations of Robbie E. Hood include Langley Research Center & Silver Spring Networks.
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Precipitation retrieval over land and ocean with the SSM/I - Identification and characteristics of the scattering signal
TL;DR: In this article, the identification of precipitation in warm and cold land and ocean environments from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's (DMSP) Special Sensor Micmwave/Imager (SSM/I).
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The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis
Edward J. Zipser,Cynthia H. Twohy,Si Chee Tsay,K. Lee Thornhill,Simone Tanelli,Robert Ross,T. N. Krishnamurti,Q. Ji,Gregory S. Jenkins,Syed Ismail,N. Christina Hsu,Robbie E. Hood,Gerald M. Heymsfield,Andrew J. Heymsfield,Jeffrey B. Halverson,H. Michael Goodman,Richard Ferrare,Jason Dunion,Michael W. Douglas,Robert Cifelli,Gao Chen,Edward V. Browell,Bruce Anderson +22 more
TL;DR: In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean as discussed by the authors.
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Factors Affecting the Evolution of Hurricane Erin (2001) and the Distributions of Hydrometeors: Role of Microphysical Processes
Greg M. McFarquhar,Henian Zhang,Gerald M. Heymsfield,Robbie E. Hood,Jimy Dudhia,Jeffrey B. Halverson,Frank D. Marks +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, fine-resolution simulations of Hurricane Erin are conducted using the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) to investigate roles of thermodynamic, boundary layer, and microphysical processes on Erin's structure and evolution.
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Nasa's tropical cloud systems and processes experiment : Investigating tropical cyclogenesis and hurricane intensity change
Jeffrey B. Halverson,Michael L. Black,Scott A. Braun,Daniel J. Cecil,Michael Goodman,Andrew J. Heymsfield,G. Heymsfield,Robbie E. Hood,T. N. Krishnamurti,Greg M. McFarquhar,Michael J. Mahoney,John Molinari,Robert F. Rogers,J. Turk,Christopher S. Velden,Da-Lin Zhang,E. Zipser,Ramesh K. Kakar +17 more
TL;DR: In 2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigated tropical cyclogenesis, hurricane structure, and intensity change in the eastern North Pacific and western Atlantic using its ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft as mentioned in this paper.
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High-resolution imaging of rain systems with the advanced microwave precipitation radiometer
Roy W. Spencer,Robbie E. Hood,Frank J. Lafontaine,Eric A. Smith,Robert Platt,Joe Galliano,Vanessa L. Griffin,Elena Lobl +7 more
TL;DR: An advanced microwave radiometer (AMPR) was used in the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft for imaging various atmospheric and surface processes, primarily the internal structure of rain clouds.