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Using SSM/I Cloud Liquid Water, Precipitation and Ice
retrievals to Understand MSU1 Precipitation Patterns
- MSU1 Tb is sensitive to liquid water and large consecutively-produced ice
- SSM/I retrievals that explicitly isolate cloudwater, liquid precipitation, and MSU2 retrievals of precipitating ice can be used to better understand spatial distributions seen in MSU1
Four years (1990-1993) of monthly, 2.5 deg gridded date are used.
Data are binned in a two-parameter analysis to isolate response of MSU1 rain rate to a given variable while another remains fixed.