Retrieval of rainfall from the MADRAS microwave imager of Megha-Tropiques
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...The two microwave instruments on board are Microwave Analysis and Detection of Rain and Atmospheric Structures (MADRAS) [255, 256] and SAPHIR (Sondeur Atmospherique du Pro l d'Humidite Intertropicale par Radiometrie)....
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...Rain algorithms are described for the MADRAS instrument [255, 256] and for atmospheric sounders [89, 257]....
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...However, a few parameters are sufficient in many such problems to reproduce the same information without compromising on the accuracy (Smith [14])....
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...There are numerous solution techniques available in the literature to solve the vector radiative transfer model, of which Doubling and Adding method is very popular (Hansen [4], de Haan et al. [5], Evans and Stephens [3])....
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...Following Evans and Stephens [3], the equation of radiative transfer in vector form (including polarization from the medium) that is applicable for microwave frequencies, known as Micro-Tropiques, is given by...
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...THE EQUATION OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER Following Evans and Stephens [3], the equation of radiative transfer in vector form (including polarization from the medium) that is applicable for microwave frequencies, known as Micro-Tropiques, is given by 0 0 0 1 ~1 ~~~,~;, 4 ~ ,,,, 2 0 1 1 TB ddP d d II (1) Here the medium is assumed to be bounded by two parallel plates; earth’s surface at the bottom specified by its 1283978-1-4577-1005-6/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE IGARSS 2011 temperature, wind speed and salinity, and top of atmosphere in the top....
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