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Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) - Publications
An evaluation of microwave land surface emissivities over the continental United States to benefit GPM-era precipitation algorithms
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Ralph Ferraro, Christa Peters-Lidard, Cecilia Hernandez, F. Joseph Turk, Felipe Aires, Catherine Prigent,
Xin Lin, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fumie Furuzawa, Kaushik Gopalan, Ken Harrison, Fatima
Karbou, Li Li, Chuntao Liu, Hirohiko Masunaga, Leslie Moy, Sarah Ringerud, Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Yudong Tian, Nai-Yu Wang
( still in the publication process )
MiRS: An All-Weather 1DVAR Satellite Data Assimilation & Retrieval System,
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S.-A. Boukabara, K. Garrett, W. Chen, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. Grassotti, C. Kongoli, R. Chen, Q. Liu, B. Yan, F. Weng, R. Ferraro, T. Kleespies, and H. Meng,
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 3249-3272, Sep. 2011,
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2158438
Assessment of a Variational Inversion System for Rainfall Rate over Land and Water Surfaces
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F. Iturbide-Sanchez, S.-A. Boukabara, R. Chen, K. Garrett, C. Grassotti,W. Chen and F. Weng;
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2119375
Global Coverage of Total Precipitable Water Using a Microwave Variational Algorithm
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Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Kevin Garrett, Wanchun Chen; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
Volume: 48 , Issue: 10,
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048035,
Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 3608 - 3621
A New Sea-Ice Concentration Algorithm Based on Microwave Surface Emissivities\u2014Application to AMSU Measurements
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Kongoli, C.; Boukabara, S.-A.; Yan, B.; Weng, F.; Ferraro, R.;
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 49 , Issue: 1 , Part: 1
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2052812
Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 175 - 189
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Extreme Weather Events Using NOAA-18 AMSUA and MHS
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Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fuzhong Wei, Quanhua Liu, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
July 2007, Vol: 45, Issue: 7, Part 2, 2228-2246, Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898263
Microwave Emissivity over Ocean in All-Weather Conditions. Validation Using WINDSAT and Airborne GPS-Dropsondes
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Sid-Ahmed Boukabara and Fuzhong Weng, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, February 2008,
vol. 46, issue 2, pp. 376-384,
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.905366
Introducing NOAA's Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS)
(PDF, 4.73MB),
S-A. Boukabara , F. Weng, R. Ferraro , L. Zhao , Q. Liu , B. Yan, A. Li, W. Chen, N. Sun,
H. Meng, T. Kleespies, C. Kongoli, Y. Han, P. Van Delst,
J. Zhao and C. Dean. Presentation at the ITSC-15 conference in Maratea, Italy, on October 2006
Microwave Variational Retrieval of Surface and Atmospheric Parameters: Application to AMSU/MHS and SSMI/S sensors.
(PDF, 293KB),
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fuzhong Weng and Quanhua Liu. Poster at the American Meterological Society Annual meeting, Georgia, Atlanta, 2006
One-dimensional retrieval algorithm of temperature, water vapor, and cloud water profiles from advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU)
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Liu, Q., and F. Weng, 2005: , IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 5, 1087-1095.