UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)
The holistic understanding of the Earth’s water and energy cycle remains one of the grandchallenges that the international scientific community needs to address in the next decade.The Raincast project is a multi-platform and multi-sensor study to address the requirement from theresearch and operational communities for global precipitation measurements. Raincast aims atidentifying and consolidating the science requirements for a satellite mission that couldcomplement the existing space-based precipitation observing system and that could optimallyliaise with efforts currently made by other agencies in this area (especially by NASA andJAXA). Because of the complexity of the cloud and precipitation processes the study capitalizeson the most recent advancement and mission concepts for precipitation observations with state-of-the-art instrumentation (including multi-frequency radars, radar-radiometer synergies, constellations of cubesat radars) and makes full use of the most recent advancements in inversion methods for the estimation of precipitation variables from primary measurements (e.g. latest ice scattering libraries, physical relationships derived by in-situ measurements).
Conference
Papers:
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2024)
Arctic Weather Satellite Sensitivity to Supercooled Liquid Water in Snowfall Conditions
Remote Sens. (2024)
Mind-the-gap – Part III: Doppler velocity measurements from space
in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, section Satellite Missions (2022)
Coincident in situ and triple-frequency radar airborne observations in the Arctic
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2022)
A Machine Learning Snowfall Retrieval Algorithm for ATMS
Remote Sensing (2022)
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (2021)
Journal of Climate (2021)
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2021)
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2021)
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2021)
Recent Advances and Challenges in Snowfall detection and Estimation
Precipitation Science, Ed. Silas Michaelides, Elsevier, ISBN 594257, Publication Date 31 May 2021 (2021)
Applications of a CloudSat-TRMM and CloudSat-GPM Satellite Coincidence Dataset
Remote Sensing (2021)
Validation of gpm rainfall and drop size distribution products through disdrometers in italy
Remote Sensing (2021)
Ice water content assessment in the single-, dual-, and triple-frequency radar scenarios
Remote Sensing of Environment (2021)
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2020)
Linking rain into ice microphysics across the melting layer in stratiform rain: a closure study
Atmospheric Measurements Techniques (2020)
Atmospheric Measurements Techniques (2020)
Remote Sensing (2020)
Space-borne cloud and precipitation radars: status, challenges and ways forward
Reviews of Geophysics (2020)
The Summertime Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation Derived from IMERG
Remote Sensing (2019)