TRMM Refereed Publications

Petty, G. W., : Frequencies and Characteristics of Global Oceanic Precipitation from Shipboard Present-Weather Reports. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1593-1716, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1995)0762.0.CO;2.
Petty, G. W., and K. B. Katsaros, : Nimbus-7 SMMR Precipitation Observations Calibrated against Surface Radar during TAMEX. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 31, 489-505, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1992)0312.0.CO;2.
Petty, G. W., and K. B. Katsaros, : Precipitation Observed over the South China Sea by the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer during Winter MONEX. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 29, 273-287, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1990)0292.0.CO;2.
Pickart, R. S., N. G. Hogg, and W. M. Methie, Jr., : Determining the Strength of the Deep Western Boundary Current Using the Chlorofluoromethane Ratio. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19, 940-951, doi:.
Polyak, I., and G. North, : The Second-Moment Climatology of the GATE Rain Rate Data. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 535-654, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1995)0762.0.CO;2.
Polyak, I., G. R. North, and J. B. Valdes, : Multivariate Space-Time Analysis of PRE-STORM Precipitation. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 33, 1079-1087, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1994)0332.0.CO;2.
Prabhakara C., R. Iacovazzi, J. A. Weinman, and G. Dalu, : A TRMM microwave radiometer rain rates estimation method with convective and stratiform discrimination. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 78(3), 241-258, doi:10.2151/jmsj1965.78.3_241.
Prabhakara, C., G. Dalu, G. L. Liberti, J. J. Nucciarone, and R. Suhasini, : Rainfall Estimation over Oceans from SMMR and SSM/I Microwave Data. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 31, 532-552, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1992)0312.0.CO;2.
Prabhakara, C., R. Iacovazzi, R. Oki, and J. A. Weinman, : A microwave radiometer rain retrieval method applicable to land areas. J. Meteor. Soc. of Japan, 77(4), 859-871, doi:10.2151/jmsj1965.77.4_859.
Prabhakara, C., R. Meneghini, D. A. Short, J. A. Weinman, R. Iacovazzi, R. Oki, and M. Cadeddu, : A TRMM Microwave radiometer rain retrieval method based on fractional rain area. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 76(5), 765-781, doi:10.2151/jmsj1965.76.5_765.
Priestley, K. J., B. R. Barkstrom, R. B. Lee III, R. N. Green, S. Thomas, R. S. Wilson, P. L. Spence, J. Paden, D. K. Pandey, and A. Al-Hajjah, : Postlaunch Radiometric Validation of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Proto-Flight Model on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Spacecraft through 1999. J. Appl. Meteor., 39(12), 2249–2258, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(2001)0402.0.CO;2.
Prigent, C., E. Defer, J. R. Pardo, C. Pearl, W. B. Rossow, and J.-P. Pinty, : Relations of polarized scattering signatures observed by the TRMM Microwave Instrument with electrical processes in cloud systems. Geophys. Res. Letts., 32(4), L04810, doi:10.1029/2004GL022225.
Pu, Z., W.-K. Tao, S. Braun, J. Simpson, Y. Jia, J. Halverson, W. Olson, and A. Hou, : The Impact of TRMM Data on Mesoscale Numerical Simulation of Supertyphoon Paka. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130(10), 2448–2458, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(2002)1302.0.CO;2.
Puri, K., and M. J. Miller, : The Use of Satellite Data in the Specification of Convective Heating for Diabatic Initialization and Moisture Adjustment in Numerical Weather Prediction Models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 67-93, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1990)1182.0.CO;2.
Puri, K., and N. E. Davidson, : The Use of Infrared Satellite Cloud Imagery Data as Proxy Data for Moisture and Diabatic Heating in Data Assimilation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 2329-2341, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1992)1202.0.CO;2.
Quartly, G. D., : Determination of Oceanic Rain Rate and Rain Cell Structure from Altimeter Waveform Data. Part I: Theory. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 15(6), 1361–1378, doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1998)0152.0.CO;2.
Quartly, G. D., and M. A. Srokosz, : SST Observations of the Agulhas and East Madagascar Retroflections by the TRMM Microwave Imager. J. Phys. Oceanography, 32(5), 1585–1592, doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2002)0322.0.CO;2.
R. Meneghini, H. Kumagai, J. R. Wang, T. Iguchi, T. Kozu, : Microphysical retrievals over stratiform rain using measurements from an airborne dual-wavelength radar-radiometer. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 35(3), 487-506, doi:10.1109/36.581956.
Rajopadhyaya, D. K., P. T. May, R. C. Cifelli, S. K. Avery, C. R. Willams, W. L. Ecklund, and K. S. Gage, : The Effect of Vertical Air Motions on Rain Rates and Median Volume Diameter Determined from Combined UHF and VHF Wind Profiler Measurements and Comparisons with Rain Gauge Measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 15(6), 1306–1319, doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1998)0152.0.CO;2.
Rapp, A. D., C. Kummerow, W. Berg, and B. Griffith, : An Evaluation of the Proposed Mechanism of the Adaptive Infrared Iris Hypothesis Using TRMM VIRS and PR Measurements. J. Climate, 18(20), 4185–4194, doi:10.1175/JCLI3528.1.