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  • Salby, Murry L., Patrick Callaghan, 1997: Sampling Error in Climate Properties Derived from Satellite Measurements: Consequences of Undersampled Diurnal Variability. Journal of Climate: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 18–36.

  • Victoria L. Sanderson, Chris Kidd, and Glenn R. McGregor, 2006: A Comparison of TRMM Microwave Techniques for Detecting the Diurnal Rainfall Cycle Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 7, Issue 4 (August 2006) pp. 687-704


  • Sato, T., T. Teraoka, and I. Kimura, 1996: Validation and ground truth for TRMM precipitation radar using the MU radar. IEICE Transactions on Communications: Vol. E79B, pp. 744-750.

  • Sauvageot, Henri, Frédéric Mesnard, Ricardo S. Tenório, 1999: The Relation between the Area-Average Rain Rate and the Rain Cell Size Distribution Parameters. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 57–70.

  • Saxen, Thomas R., Steven A. Rutledge, 2000: Surface Rainfall–Cold Cloud Fractional Coverage Relationship in TOGA COARE: A Function of Vertical Wind Shear. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 407–415.

  • Schaack, Todd K., Allen J. Lenzen, Donald R. Johnson, 1991: Global Heating Distributions for January 1979 Calculated from GLA Assimilated and Simulated Model-based Datasets. Journal of Climate: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 395–406.

  • Schoenberg Ferrier, Brad, 1994: A Double-Moment Multiple-Phase Four-Class Bulk Ice Scheme. Part I: Description. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 249–280.

  • Schoenberg Ferrier, Brad, Joanne Simpson, Wei-Kuo Tao, 1996: Factors Responsible for Precipitation Efficiencies in Midlatitude and Tropical Squall Simulations. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 124, No. 10, pp. 2100–2125.

  • Courtney Schumacher, Robert A. Houze Jr. and Ian Kraucunas. 2004: The Tropical Dynamical Response to Latent Heating Estimates Derived from the TRMM Precipitation Radar. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 61, No. 12, pp. 1341–1358.

  • Schumacher, Courtney, Robert A. Houze Jr., 2000: Comparison of Radar Data from the TRMM Satellite and Kwajalein Oceanic Validation Site. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2151–2164.

  • Seo, E.-K. and M. I. Biggerstaff 2006: Impact of cloud model microphysics on passive microwave retrievals of cloud properties. Part II: Uncertainty in rain, hydrometeor structure and latent heating retrievals. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climate, 45, 955-972.


  • Shepherd, J.M., B.S. Ferrier, and P.S. Ray, 2001: Rainfall Morphology in Florida Convergence Zones: A Numerical Study. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 129, pp. 177-197


  • Shige, S., Y. N. Takayabu, W.-K. Tao, and C.-L. Shie, 2007: Spectral Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM PR Data. Part II: Algorithm Improvement and Heating Estimates over Tropical Ocean Regions, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46(7), 1098-1124

  • Shige, S., H. Sasaki, K. Okamoto, and T. Iguchi (2006), Validation of rainfall estimates from the TRMM precipitation radar and microwave imager using a radiative transfer model: 1. Comparison of the version-5 and -6 products, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13803, doi:10.1029/2006GL026350.

  • Shoichi Shige, Yukari N. Takayabu, Wei-Kuo Tao and Daniel E. Johnson. 2004: Spectral Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM PR Data. Part I: Development of a Model-Based Algorithm. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 1095–1113.


  • Shin, Dong-Bin ; Chiu, Long S. ; Kafatos, Menas,, 2001: Comparison of the Monthly Precipitation Derived from the TRMM Satellite, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 28 , No. 5 , p. 795

  • Shin, Dong-Bin, Gerald R. North, 2000: Errors Incurred in Sampling a Cyclostationary Field. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 656–664.

  • Shin, Dong-Bin, Gerald R. North, Kenneth P. Bowman, 2000: A Summary of Reflectivity Profiles from the First Year of TRMM Radar Data. Journal of Climate: Vol. 13, No. 23, pp. 4072–4086.

  • Shin, Kyung-Sup, Gerald R. North, 1988: Sampling Error Study for Rainfall Estimate by Satellite Using a Stochastic Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 1218–1231.

  • Shin, Kyung-Sup, Gerald R. North, Yoo-Shin Ahn, Phillip A. Arkin, 1990: Time Scales and Variability of Area-Averaged Tropical Oceanic Rainfall. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 118, No. 7, pp. 1507–1516.

  • Shin, Kyung-Sup, Phil E. Riba, Gerald R. North, 1990: Estimation of Area-Averaged Rainfall over Tropical Oceans from Microwave Radiometry: A Single Channel Approach. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 1031–1042.

  • Short, David A., David B. Wolff, Daniel Rosenfeld, David Atlas, 1993: A Study of the Threshold Method Utilizing Raingage Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 1379–1387.

  • Short, David A., Kenji Nakamura, 2000: TRMM Radar Observations of Shallow Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans. Journal of Climate: Vol. 13, No. 23, pp. 4107–4124.

  • Simpson, J., C. Kummerow, W.K. Tao, and R.F. Adler, 1996: On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics: Vol. 60, pp. 19-36.

  • Simpson, Joanne, Robert F. Adler, Gerald R. North, 1988: A Proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 278–278.

  • Skofronick-Jackson, Gail M., James R. Wang, 2000: The Estimation of Hydrometeor Profiles from Wideband Microwave Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 39, No. 10, pp. 1645–1657.

  • Smith, E. A., J. E. Lamm, R. Adler, J. Alishouse, K. Aonashi, E. Barrett, P. Bauer, W. Berg, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, J. Ferriday, S. Goodman, N. Grody, C. Kidd, D. Kniveton, C. Kummerow, G. Liu, F. Marzano, A. Mugnai, W. Olson, G. Petty, A. Shibata, R. Spencer, F. Wentz, T. Wilheit, E. Zipser, 1998: Results of WetNet PIP-2 Project. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1483–1536.

  • Smith, E.A., X. Xiang, A. Mugnai, R.E. Hood, R.W. Spencer, 1994: Behavior of an Inversion-Based precipitation Retrieval Algorithm with High-Resolution AMPR Measurements Including a Low-Frequency 10.7-GHz Channel. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 858–873.

  • Smith, Eric A., F. Joseph Turk, Michael R. Farrar, Alberto Mugnai, Xuwu Xiang, 1997: Estimating 13.8-GHz Path-Integrated Attenuation from 10.7-GHz Brightness Temperatures for the TRMM Combined PR–TMI Precipitation Algorithm. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 365–388.

  • Smith, Eric A., Harry J. Cooper, Xuwu Xiang, Alberto Mugnai, Gregory J. Tripoli, 1992: Foundations for Statistical-Physical Precipitation Retrieval from Passive Microwave Satellite Measurements. Part I: Brightness-Temperature Properties of a Time-dependent Cloud-Radiation Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 506–531.

  • Smith, James A., 1993: Marked Point Process Models of Raindrop-Size Distributions. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 284–296.
  • Adam H. Sobel, Sandra E. Yuter, Christopher S. Bretherton and George N. Kiladis. 2004: Large-Scale Meteorology and Deep Convection during TRMM KWAJEX*. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 132, No. 2, pp. 422–444.


  • Soman, Vishwas V., Juan B. Valdés, Gerald R. North, 1995: Satellite Sampling and the Diurnal Cycle Statistics of Darwin Rainfall Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 2481–2490.

  • Sorooshian, Soroosh, Kuo-Lin Hsu, Xiaogang Gao, Hoshin V. Gupta, Bisher Imam, Dan Braithwaite, 2000: Evaluation of PERSIANN System Satellite–Based Estimates of Tropical Rainfall. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 81, No. 9, pp. 2035–2046.

  • Spencer, Roy W., 1993: Global Oceanic Precipitation from the MSU during 1979—91 and Comparisons to Other Climatologies. Journal of Climate: Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 1301–1326.

  • Spencer, Roy W., Robbie E. Hood, Frank J. Lafontaine, Eric A. Smith, Robert Platt, Joe Galliano, Vanessa L. Griffin, Elena Lobl, 1994: High-Resolution Imaging of Rain Systems with the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 849–857.

  • Steiner, M., and J. A. Smith, 2000: Reflectivity, rain rate, and kinetic energy flux relationships based on raindrop spectra. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 1923-1940.
  • Steiner, M., J. A. Smith, S. J. Burges, C. V. Alonso, and R. W. Darden, 1999: Effect of bias adjustment and rain gauge data quality control on radar rainfall estimation. Water Resources Research, 35, 2487-2503.

  • Steiner, M., and J. A. Smith, 1998: Convective versus stratiform rainfall: An ice-microphysical and kinematic conceptual model. Atmospheric Research, 47-48, 317-326.

  • Steiner, M., and R. A. Houze Jr., 1998: Sensitivity of monthly three-dimensional radar-echo characteristics to sampling frequency. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 76, 73-95.

  • Steiner, Matthias, Robert A. Houze Jr., 1997: Sensitivity of the Estimated Monthly Convective Rain Fraction to the Choice of Z–R Relation. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 452–462.

  • Steiner, M., 1996: Uncertainty of estimates of monthly areal rainfall for temporally sparse remote observations. Water Resources Research, 32, 373-388.

  • Steiner, Matthias, Robert A. Houze Jr., Sandra E. Yuter, 1995: Climatological Characterization of Three-Dimensional Storm Structure from Operational Radar and Rain Gauge Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1978–2007.

  • Stokes, Gerald M., Stephen E. Schwartz, 1994: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: Programmatic Background and Design of the Cloud and Radiation Test Bed. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 75, No. 7, pp. 1201–1222.

  • Stowe, Larry, Philip Ardanuy, Richard Hucek, Peter Abel, Herbert Jacobowitz, 1993: Evaluating the Design of an Earth Radiation Budget Instrument with System Simulations. Part I: Instantaneous Estimates. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 809–826.

  • Stowe, Larry, Richard Hucek, Philip Ardanuy, Robert Joyce, 1994: Evaluating the Design of an Earth Radiation Budget Instrument with System Simulations. Part II: Minimization of Instantaneous Sampling Errors for CERES-I. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 1169–1183.

  • Sui, C.-H., X. Li, K.-M. Lau, 1998: Radiative–Convective Processes in Simulated Diurnal Variations ofTropical Oceanic Convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 13, pp. 2345–2359.

  • Sui, C.-H., X. Li, K.-M. Lau, D. Adamec, 1997: Multiscale Air–Sea Interactions during TOGA COARE. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 125, No. 4, pp. 448–462.

  • Takayabu, Yukari N., K.-M. Lau, C.-H. Sui, 1996: Observation of a Quasi-2-Day Wave during TOGA COARE. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 124, No. 9, pp. 1892–1913.

  • Tani, Taoufik, Paul Amayenc, 1998: Comparison of Rain-Profiling Methods from ARMAR Data in TOGA COARE with a View to a Possible Use with the TRMM Radar. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 1600–1618.

  • W.-K. Tao, E. A. Smith, R. F. Adler, Z. S. Haddad, A. Y. Hou, T. Iguchi, R. Kakar, T. N. Krishnamurti, C. D. Kummerow, S. Lang, R. Meneghini, K. Nakamura, T. Nakazawa, K. Okamoto, W. S. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, J. Simpson, Y. Takayabu, G. J. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2006: Retrieval of Latent Heating from TRMM Measurements Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 87, Issue 11 (November 2006) pp. 1555-1572


  • Tao, W.K., S. Lang, J. Simpson, W.S. Olson, D. Johnson, B. Ferrier, C. Kummerow, and R. Adler, 2000: Vertical profiles of latent heat release and their retrieval for TOGA COARE convective systems using a cloud resolving model, SSM/I, and ship-borne radar data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 78, pp. 333-355.

  • Tao, Wei-Kuo, Joanne Simpson, 1989: A Further Study of Cumulus Interactions and Mergers: Three-Dimensional Simulations with Trajectory Analyses. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 46, No. 19, pp. 2974–3004.

  • Tao, W.K. S. Lang, J. Simpson, and R. Adler, 1993: Retrieval algorithms for estimating the vertical profiles of latent-heat release-their applications for TRMM. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan: Vol. 71, pp. 685-700.

  • Tao, Wei-Kuo, Joanne Simpson, 1989: Modeling Study of a Tropical Squall-Type Convective Line. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 177–202.

  • Tao, Wei-Kuo, Joanne Simpson, Stephen Lang, Michael McCumber, Robert Adler, Richard Penc, 1990: An Algorithm to Estimate the Heating Budget from Vertical Hydrometeor Profiles. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1232–1244.

  • Tao, W.-K., J.R. Scala, B. Ferrier, J. Simpson, 1995: The Effect of Melting Processes on the Development of a Tropical and a Midlatitude Squall Line. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 1934–1948.

  • Tao, W.-K., R. Adler, S. Braun, F. Einaudi, B. Ferrier, J. Halverson, G. Heymsfield, C. Kummerow, A. Negri, R. Kakar, 2000: meeting summary : Summary of a Symposium on Cloud Systems, Hurricanes, and TRMM: Celebration of Dr. Joanne Simpson's Career—The First Fifty Years. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 81, No. 10, pp. 2463–2474.

  • Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, B. Ferrier, M.-D. Chou, 1996: Mechanisms of Cloud-Radiation Interaction in the Tropics and Nfidlatitudes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 53, No. 18, pp. 2624–2651.

  • Tesmer, Jeffrey R., Thomas T. Wilheit, 1998: An Improved Microwave Radiative Transfer Model for Tropical Oceanic Precipitation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1674–1689.

  • Testud, Jacques, Paul Amayenc, Mongi Marzoug, 1992: Rainfall-Rate Retrieval from a Spaceborne Radar: Comparison between Single-Frequency, Dual-Frequency, and Dual-Beam Techniques. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 599–623.

  • Testud, Jacques, Paul Amayenc, Xiankang Dou, Taoufix Tani, 1996: Tests of Rain Profiling Algorithms for a Spaceborne Radar Using Raincell Models and Real Data Precipitation Fields. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 426–453.

  • Theon, J.S., 1993: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Remote Sensing of Earth's Surface and Atmosphere. Vol. 14, pp. 159-165.

  • Thurai, M., and T. Iguchi, 2000: Rain height information from TRMM precipitation radar. Electronic Letters: Vol. 36, pp. 1059-1061.

  • Tibbets R.T., and. T.N. Krishnamurti, 2000: An intercomparison of hurricane forecasts using SSM/I and TRMM rain rate algorithms. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics: Vol. 74, pp. 37-49.

  • Timothy, K. Isiah, Toshio Iguchi, Yuji Ohsaki, Hiroaki Horie, Hiroshi Hanado, Hiroshi Kumagai, 1999: Test of the Specific Differential Propagation Phase Shift (KDP) Technique for Rain-Rate Estimation with a Ku-Band Rain Radar. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1077–1091.

  • Tokay, Ali, David A. Short, 1996: Evidence from Tropical Raindrop Spectra of the Origin of Rain from Stratiform versus Convective Clouds. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 355–371.

  • Tokay, Ali, David A. Short, Christopher R. Williams, Warner L. Ecklund, Kenneth S. Gage, 1999: Tropical Rainfall Associated with Convective and Stratiform Clouds: Intercomparison of Disdrometer and Profiler Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 302–320.

  • N. Tran, O.-Z. Zanife, B. Chapron, D. Vandemark and P. Vincent. 2005: Absolute Calibration of Jason-1 and Envisat Altimeter Ku-Band Radar Cross Sections from Cross Comparison with TRMM Precipitation Radar Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1389–1402.

  • N. Tran, E. Obligis and F. Ferreira. 2005: Comparison of Two Jason-1 Altimeter Precipitation Detection Algorithms with Rain Estimates from the TRMM Microwave Imager. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 782–794.

  • Tsuyuki, Tadashi, 1997: Variational Data Assimilation in the Tropics Using Precipitation Data. Part III: Assimilation of SSM/I Precipitation Rates. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 125, No. 7, pp. 1447–1464.

  • Turk, J., F. S. Marzano, A. Mugnai, 1998: Effects of Degraded Sensor Resolution upon Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrievals of Tropical Rainfall. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1689–1706.

  • Turner, B.J., G.L. Austin, 1993: Spatial Variability of Summer Florida Precipitation and Its Impact on Microwave Radiometer Rainfall-Measurement Systems. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 172–181.


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