EGS XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2000

NH2.02 Meteorological and hydrological hazards: Multisensor remote sensing of extreme storms: retrieval techniques and data exploitation for an improved forecast

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In the last few years, it has become apparent that monitoring of extreme flood-producing storms can be greatly improved by the use of simultaneous observations made by both ground-based meteorological radars and satellite-borne sensors, such as the polar-orbiting Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) radiometers and the infrared radiometers flown aboard the Meteosat and GOES geostationary satellites. The different space-time coverage characteristics of the various sensors, as well as their different capability to provide information on the evolution and internal structure of the observed storms, make it very fruitful to blend the various types of data for quantitative precipitation measurement and forecasting. Since late 1997, the satellite observations within about 35 latitude have benefited enormously by the contemporary use of the first Precipitation Radar and of the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI), both flown aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) space observatory. Aim of this Symposium is presentation and discussion of multisensor precipitation retrieval techniques, as well as of storm monitoring and forecast techniques that are based either on the observations only or on their combined use with cloud models and limited area models.

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