Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
Online ISSN : 2186-9057
Print ISSN : 0026-1165
ISSN-L : 0026-1165
Estimation of Atmospheric Liquid-Water Amount by Nimbus 7 SMMR Data
A New Method and Its Application to the Western North-Pacific Region
Takao TakedaGuosheng Liu
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1987 Volume 65 Issue 6 Pages 931-947

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A new method of estimating vertically-integrated liquid-water amount and identifying precipitating clouds by Nimbus 7 SMMR data was presented on the basis of calculations of microwave radiative transfer. Comparison with other methods showed that the new method gives reasonable estimates for both precipitating and non-precipitating clouds. The method was applied to clouds in the western North-Pacific region in February of 1980, and some characteristics of integrated liquidwater amount, the relationship between averaged integrated liquid-water amount and cloud amount in each latitudinal zone, etc. were studied.

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