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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-515-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-515-2024
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GPROF V7 and beyond: assessment of current and potential future versions of the GPROF passive microwave precipitation retrievals against ground radar measurements over the continental US and the Pacific Ocean

Simon Pfreundschuh, Clément Guilloteau, Paula J. Brown, Christian D. Kummerow, and Patrick Eriksson

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This work validates retrievals from the latest operational version of the NASA Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF), currently version 7, and it quantitatively demonstrates the performance improvements with respect to previous versions (GPROF v05) at various spatial and temporal resolutions. It also presents new, not yet operationally implemented, machine learning based versions of GPROF (GPROF-NN).
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The latest version of the GPROF retrieval algorithm that produces global precipitation estimates using observations from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission is validated against ground-based radars. The validation shows that the algorithm accurately estimates precipitation on scales ranging from continental to regional. In addition, we validate candidates for the next version of the algorithm and identify principal challenges for further improving space-borne rain measurements.