Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
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TRMM<br />
<strong>Tropical</strong> Cyclone Science<br />
<strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>Rainfall</strong> <strong>Measuring</strong> <strong>Mission</strong><br />
•<strong>Rainfall</strong> climatologies in<br />
hurricanes<br />
•Radial distribution<br />
•Shear and motion induced<br />
asymmetries<br />
•Eyewall and rainband<br />
vertical structure and<br />
lightning<br />
•Contributions to global<br />
precipitation<br />
•Precipitation feature<br />
database characteristics<br />
•Data assimilation<br />
•Evaluation of storm structures in<br />
mesoscale models<br />
Shear<br />
direction<br />
Normalized <strong>Rainfall</strong> anomaly<br />
From Chen et al. (2006)<br />
•Case studies<br />
•Improved SST estimates in storm<br />
wakes<br />
Courtesy of H. Jiang<br />
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