Abstract:
The TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) is a nine-channel passive microwave radiometer, which builds on the heritage of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) instrument flown aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) platforms.
The TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first of its kind in space, is an electronically scanning
... radar, operating at 13.8 GHz that measures the 3-D rainfall distribution over both land and ocean, and defines the layer depth of the precipitation.
The TRMM combined algorithm (2B31) combines data from the TMI and PR to produce the best rain estimate for TRMM. Currently, it uses the low frequency channels of TMI to find the total path attenuation. This information is used to constrain the radar equation.