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Variations in the convective rain fraction observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR)
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IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and remote sensing symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International. 4:2012-2016 vol.4 2002
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Using a data clustering method, monthly statistics are calculated from rain rate estimates of the TRMM Precipitation Radar. The statistics show how the following variables change with the size of a rain event: convective rain rate, total rain rate, and convective rain fraction. On average, the convective rain fraction is found to be greatest for small mesoscale events covering 10/sup 3/ km/sup 2/, while rain rate increases monotonically with the size of the rain event.