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J-GLOBAL ID：200902230737851289   Reference number：09A0818224

Uncertainties in the Rain Profiling Algorithm for the TRMM Precipitation Radar

TRMM/PR用の降雨鉛直分布アルゴリズム内の不確実性

Author (6)： IGUCHI Toshio (National Inst. of Information and Communications Technol.) ,  KOZU Toshiaki (Shimane Univ.) ,  KWIATKOWSKI John (George Mason Univ.) ,  MENEGHINI Robert (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ,  AWAKA Jun (Dep. of Marine Biology and Sciences, Tokai Univ. Sapporo Campus) ,  OKAMOTO Ken'ichi (Tottori Univ. of Environmental Studies)
Material： Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan  (気象集誌)
Volume： 87A  Page： 1-30 (J-STAGE)  Publication year： 2009 
JST Material Number： G0095A  ISSN： 0026-1165  CODEN： JMSJA  Document type： Article
Article type： 原著論文  Country of issue： Japan (JPN)  Language： ENGLISH (EN)

Thesaurus term： *rainfall ,  *vertical distribution (meteorology) ,  algorithm ,  Uncertainty ,  parameter
Semi thesaurus term： Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission/Precipitation Radar ,  誤差源

JST classification (1)： Mesoscale disturbance,characteristic of precipitation  (DC05120X)

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Terms in the title (6)： TRMM ,  Pr ,  降雨 ,  鉛直分布 ,  アルゴリズム ,  不確実性