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Validation Campaigns for the AMSR-E Sensor on the NASA Aqua Satellite
Rainfall rate taken by the WSR-88D radar in Eureka. Image courtesy of David Wolff of Goddard Space Flight Center and the AMSR-E Science Team.
A Next Generation Radar/Weather Surveillance Radar-88 Doppler (NEXRAD/WSR-88D) and a small rain gauge network in Eureka, California USA provided ground validation data for AMSR-E Rainfall Validation efforts. Gauges were installed 24-28 August 2000 in clusters of varying density to determine a best estimate of a true rain rate through measurement redundancy. The WSR-88D radar has a measurement range radius of 150-200 km. It measures instantaneous rain rate, stratiform/convective rain type, and five-day and monthly rain accumulation, in addition to radar reflectivity, with a 2 km resolution for most products.
For more information on NEXRAD, visit the NOAA Radar Operations Center Web site.
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Using AMSR-E Soil Moisture Data to Study Extent of March 2004 Flood
Ferraro, R.R., and J.R. McCollum. 2003. Rainfall Over Land from the AMSR-E. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293876.
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Information about the NEXRAD Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler (WSR-88D)
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