Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
Three techniques for the estimate of rain rate from infrared satellite images have been examined and modified to be used over the western Mediterranean Sea. An attempt to optimize these techniques has been made by comparing the remotely-sensed precipitation with in situ data, obtained from the rain gauge network over Sardinia, for three different seasons of 1988. The results obtained so far clearly reveal the limitations of infrared remote sensing techniques when applied to precipitation retrievals. However, these results give the possibility of gaining some useful insights on the general problem and show that infrared remote sensing techniques can give acceptable area-time averages of precipitation which are useful for climatological studies.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 14; 1; p. 115-134.
Format:
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