Wakasa Bay: an AMSR precipitation validation campaign
In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Jg. 88 (2007-04-01), Heft 4, S. 477-485
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The 'Wakasa Bay Experiment' was conducted in order to refine error models for oceanic precipitation from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) measurements and to develop algorithms for snowfall. The NASA P-3 aircraft was equipped with microwave radiometers, covering a fiequency range of 10.7-340 GHz, and radars at 13.4, 35.6, and 94 GHz, and was deployed to Yokota Air Base in Japan for flights from 14 January to 3 February 2003. For four flight days (27-30 January) a Gulfstream II aircraft provided by Core Research for Environmental Science and Technology (CREST), carrying an extensive cloud physics payload and a two-frequency (23.8 and 31.4 GHz) microwave radiometer, joined the P-3 for coordinated flights. The Gulfstream II aircraft was part of the 'Winter Mesoscale Convective Systems Observations over the Sea of Japan in 2003' ('WMO-03') field campaign sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Corporation (]ST). Extensive data were taken, which addressed all of the experimental objectives. The data obtained with the NASA P-3 are available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and they are available free of charge to all interested researchers. (Page 551)
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Wakasa Bay: an AMSR precipitation validation campaign
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lobl, Elena S. ; Aonashi, Kazumasa ; Griffith, Brian ; Kummeroa, Christian, ; Liu, Guosheng ; Murakami, Masataka ; Wilheit, Thomas |
Zeitschrift: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Jg. 88 (2007-04-01), Heft 4, S. 477-485 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2007 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0003-0007 (print) |
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