The Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) MTGV Super-Site is now fully operational with the Xport polarimetric radar ready to sample convective systems. The first Radio-Sounding Campaign dedicated to MT-SAPHIR based Water Vapor products validation, has been going on since May 29th, thanks…
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Megha-Tropiques was present at the 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that took place in Ponte-Vedra Beach, FL, USA on 15-20th of April 2012. The Megha-Tropiques data set is an invaluable source of information for the community working on…
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Sahra Kacimi, sous la direction de Nicolas Viltard (LATMOS), soutiendra sa thèse le 9 mars à 15h00 : Application de méthodes neuronales pour l’amélioration d’un algorithme de restitution des précipitations par radiométrie micro-onde: préparation à la mission Megha-Tropiques. Plus d’informations…
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Tapeer-BRAIN is a combined Microwave-Infrared accumulated precipitation estimation product implemented as a Megha-Tropiques Level 4 product. TAPEER stands for Tropical Amount of Precipitation with an Estimate of ERrors. It provides precipitation estimations and associated errors at the one-degree/one-day accumulated scale. To…
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The Xport polarimetric radar has been successfully installed at the Direction Générale de la Météorologie (DGM) in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso, together with a network of 16 rain gages. More information on ground validation activities : marielle.gosset@ird.fr More information on…
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