TOWARDS HIGHRESOLUTION GLOBAL SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION

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TOWARDS HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL SATELLITE
PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION (PERSIANN
Precipitation Estimation from Remote Sensing
Information (NASA and NOAA satellite data) using
Artificial Neural Network) NEWS Project PI
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California,
Irvine
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Flash Flood Monitoring NEWS Project PI
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California,
Irvine In summer, 2006, Southwestern United
States experienced a series of recorded flash
floods due to the strong North American Monsoon.
This demo shows the potential of using satellite
rainfall estimates to improve flooding warning.