2004 Publications

• L'Ecuyer, Tristan, C. Kummerow, and W. Berg: 2004: Toward a global map of raindrop size distributions. Part I: rain-type classification and its implications for validating global rainfall products, J. Hydrometeorology, 5, 831-849. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Nesbitt, S. W., E. Zipser, C. Kummerow, 2004: An examination of version-5 rainfall estimates from the TRMM microwave imager, precipitation radar and ran gauges on global, regional and storm scales, J. Appl. Meteorol., 43, 1016-1036.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Kummerow, C., P. Poyner, W. Berg, and J. Thomas-Stahle, 2004: The effects of rainfall inhomogeneity on climate variability of rainfall estimated from passive microwave sensors, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 21, 624-638. [Abstract] [PDF print version]

        2003 Publications

• Shin, D.-B., and C. Kummerow, 2003: Parametric rainfall retrieval algorithms for passive microwave radiometers, J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 1480-1496.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Robertson, F. R., D. E. Fitzjarrald, and C. D. Kummerow, 2003: Effects of uncertainty in TRMM precipitation radar path integrated attenuation on interanual variations of tropical oceanic rainfall, Geophys. Res. Letters, 30. [PDF print version]
• Harris, D., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, and C. Kummerow, 2003: Effects of underrepresented hydrometeor variability and partial beam filling on microwave brightness temperatures for rainfall retrieval, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D8), 8380, doi: 10.1029/2001JD001144.
• Wilheit, T., C. Kummerow and R. Ferraro, 2003: Rainfall algorithms for AMSR-E, IEEE: Trans. Geoscience and Rem. Sensing, 41, 204-214.
• Adler, R. F., C. Kummerow, D. Bolvin, S. Curtis, and C. Kidd, 2003: Status of TRMM monthly estimates of tropical precipitation, Meteorological Monographs, W-K. Tao and R. F. Adler (Eds.), American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 223-234.
• Battaglia, A., C. Kummerow, D.-B. Shin, and C. Willliams, 2003: Constraining microwave brightness temperatures by radar brightband observations, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20, 856-871. [Abstract] [PDF print version]

        2002 Publications

• Berg, W., C. Kummerow, and C. Morales, 2002: Differences between east and west Pacific rainfall systems, J. Climate, 15, 3659-3672.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Smith, E. A., P. Bauer, F. S. Marzano, C. D. Kummerow, D. McKague, A. Mugnai, G. Panegrossi, 2002: Intercomparison of microwave radiative transfer models for precipitating clouds, IEEE: Trans. Geoscience and Rem. Sensing, 40, 541-549.

        2001 Publications

• Bell, T., P. Kundu and C. Kummerow, 2001: Sampling errors of SSM/I and TRMM rainfall averages: comparison with error estimates from surface data and a simple model, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 938-954. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Hou, A. Y., S. Q. Zhang, A. M. da Silva, W. S. Olson, C. Kummerow, and J. Simpson, 2001: Improving global analysis and short-range forecast using rainfall and moisture observations derived from TRMM and SSM/I passive microwawve sensors, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 82, 659-679. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Olson, W. S., P. Bauer, C. D. Kummerow, Y. Hong, and W.-K. Tao, 2001: A melting layer model for passive/active microwave remote sensing applications- Part II: simulation of TRMM observations, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 1164-1179. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, W. S. Olson, R. Meneghini, S. Yang, J. Simpson, C. Kummerow, E. Smith and J. Halverson, 2001: Retrieved vertical profiles of latent heat release using TRMM products for February 1988, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 957-982.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Olson, W. S., Y. Hong, C. Kummerow and J. Turk, 2001: A texture-polarization method for estimating convective-stratiform precipitation area coverage from passive microwave radiometer data, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 1577-1591.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Kummerow, C., Y. Hong, W. S. Olson, S. Yang, R. F. Adler, J. McCollum, R. Ferraro, G. Petty, D. -B. Shin, and T. T. Wilheit, 2001: The evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for rainfall estimation from passive microwave sensors, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 1801-1820.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Bauer, P., P. Amayenc, C. Kummerow, and E. Smth, 2001: Over-ocean rainfall retrieval from multisensor data of the tropical rainfall measuring mission. Part II: algorithm implementation, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 18, 1838-1855.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Krishnamurti, T. N., S. Surendran, D. W. Shin, R. J. Correa-Torres, V. Kumar, E. Williford, C. Kummerow, R. F. Adler, J. Simpson, R. Kakar, W. S. Olson, and F. J. Turk, 2001: Real-time multianalysis-multimodel superensemble forecasts of precipitation using TRMM and SSM/I products, Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2861-2883.[Abstract] [PDF print version]

        2000 Publications

• Berg, W., D. Anderson, and J. J. Bates, 2000: Satellite observations of a Pacific moisture surge associated with flooding in Las Vegas,Geophys. Res. Let., 27, 2553-2556. [Abstract]
• 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, J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 78, 333-355. [Abstract]
• Viltard, N, C. Kummerow, W. S. Olson, and Y. Hong, 2000: Combined use of the radar and radiometer of TRMM to estimate the influence of drop size distribution on rain retrievals, J. Appl. Meteorol., 39, 2103-2114. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Kummerow, C., J. Simpson, O. Thiele, W. Barnes, A.T.C. Chang, E. Stocker, R. F. Adler, A. Hou, R. Kakar, F. Wentz, P. Ashcroft, T. Kozu, Y. Hong, K. Okamoto, T. Iguchi, H. Kuroiwa, E. Im, Z. Haddad, G. Huffman, T. Krishnamurti, B. Ferrier, W.S. Olson, E. Zipser, E.A. Smith, T.T. Wilheit, G. North, K. Nakamura, 2000: The status of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit, J. of Appl. Meteorol., 39, 1965-1982. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Williams, C. R., A. Krueger, K. S. Gage, A. Tokay, R. Cifelli, W. F. Krajewski and C. Kummerow, 2000: Comparison of simultaneous rain drop size distributions estimated from two surface disdrometers and a UHF profiler, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1763-1766. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Simpson, J., C. Kummerow, …11 additional authors, 2000: The tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) progress report, Studying the Earth from Space, N4, 71-90. [Abstract]
• Hong, Y., J. L. Haferman, W. S. Olson, and C. D. Kummerow, 2000: Microwave brightness temperatures from tilted convective systems, J. Appl. Meteorol., 39, 983-998. [Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Hou, A. Y., D. V. Ledvina, A. M. da Silva, S. Q. Zhang, J. Joiner, R. M. Atlas, G. J. Huffman and C. D. Kummerow, 2000: Assimilation of SSM/I-derived surface rainfall and total precipitable water for improving the GEOS analysis for climate studies, Mon. Wea. Rev., 128(3), 509-537.[Abstract] [PDF print version]
• Bauer, P. A., A. Khain, A. Pokrovsky, R. Meneghini, C. Kummerow, F. Marzano, J. P. V. Poiares Baptista, 2000: Combined cloud-microwave radiative transfer modeling of stratiform rainfall, J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1082-1104. [Abstract] [PDF print version]