SIMULATION-BASED ERROR ANALYSIS FOR THE PATH-AVERAGED RAINFALL RATE ESTIMATED FROM THE RAIN ATTENUATION

Authors
OHSAKI Y KUROIWA H
Citation
Y. Ohsaki et H. Kuroiwa, SIMULATION-BASED ERROR ANALYSIS FOR THE PATH-AVERAGED RAINFALL RATE ESTIMATED FROM THE RAIN ATTENUATION, IEICE transactions on communications, E80B(1), 1997, pp. 176-181
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic",Telecommunications
Journal title
IEICE transactions on communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168516
Volume
E80B
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
176 - 181
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8516(1997)E80B:1<176:SEAFTP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A radio propagation experiment at the Okinawa Radio Observatory of the Communications Research Laboratory is investigating the Feasibility o f calibrating the spaceborne precipitation radar onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission by using the path-averaged rainfall rate es timated from rain attenuation. Because this estimated rainfall rare ha s errors due to the spatial inhomogeneity of rainfall rate and the var iability of raindrop size distribution, we used distrometer data to ev aluate both of these errors by computer simulation.