Development of spaceborne radar simulator by NICT and JAXA using JMA cloud-resolving model

Abstract

This study demonstrated preliminary results in diagnosis of the numerical model with reference to the TRMM/PR, examples of the GPM/DPR synthetic data, and application of the synthetic data to the algorithm development in the nonuniform beamfilling correction method. These were performed using a satellite radar simulation algorithm by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) named as the Integrated Satellite Observation Simulator for Radar (ISOSIM-Radar) and a cloud-resolving model by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA-NHM).