Forward Scattering ‘Radar of Opportunity’ aboard the PAZ Satellite: Sensing of Heavy Precipitation and Synergies with GPM and other Precipitation Radars
Estel Cardellach1, Sergio Tomás2, Santi Oliveras2, Antonio Rius2, Chi O Ao3, Joe J Turk4, Manuel de la Torre Juarez5, Ramon Padulles6, Byron Iijima6, Garth W Franklin6, Thomas K Meehan7, Da Kuang5, Douglas Hunt8, Jan Weiss8, William Steven Schreiner9, Sergey V Sokolovskiy10, Yoke Yoon9, Zhen Zeng11, Teresa Vanhove9, Jennifer Clapp12, Wei Xia-Serafino13 and Fernando Cerezo14, (1)Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Barcelona, Spain, (2)Institute for Space Sciences (ICE - CSIC/IEEC), Barcelona, Spain, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (9)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COSMIC Program Office, Boulder, United States, (12)NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (13)NOAA, Silver Springs, MD, United States, (14)Hisdesat, Madrid, Spain
