PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION USING COMBINED RADAR AND MICROWAVE RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS FROM GPM- IMPROVEMENTS AND INITIAL VALIDATION
William S Olson1, Mircea Grecu2, Stephen J Munchak3, Kwo-Sen Kuo4, Benjamin T Johnson5, Ziad S Haddad6, Lin Tian7, Liang Liao7, Bartie L Kelley8 and Sarah Ringerud9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (5)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
