Satellite precipitation products from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and its predecessor the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are a critical data source for hydrological applications in ungauged basins. This study conducted an initial and early evaluation of the performance of the Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) final run and the TRMM Multi-sa...

Background: Pseudomeningoceles (PMs) are infrequent complications of spine surgery resulting from incidental durotomy and subsequent extravasation cerebrospinal fluid. Giant PMs (GPMs), defined as ≥8 cm in major diameter, rarely reported the literature present a challenge due to lack clear guidelines for surgical management. Case Description: Here, authors discuss successful management 25.3 lum...

Reliable precipitation is crucial for hydrological studies over Tibetan Plateau (TP) basins with sparsely distributed rainfall gauges. In this study, four widely used products, including the Asian Precipitation Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of water resources (APHRODITE), High Asia Reanalysis (HAR), and satellite-based estimates from Global Measurement (GPM) ...

Treatment of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) from contaminated surface and groundwater supplies presents specific challenges due to the physicochemical properties of MTBE which depend strongly on its hydrophilic nature, and translate into a high solubility in water, very low HenryÕs constant and very low affinity for common adsorbents. In this study we evaluate two common treatment technologies,...

Retrievals of falling snow from space represent one of the next important challenges for the atmospheric, hydrological, and energy budget scientific communities. Estimates of falling snow must be captured to obtain the true global precipitation water cycle, snowfall accumulations are required for hydrological studies, and without knowledge of the frozen particles in clouds one cannot adequately...

The sensitivity of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) high-frequency channels to snowfall at higher latitudes (around 60◦N/S) is investigated using coincident CloudSat observations. The 166 GHz channel is highlighted throughout the study due to its ice scattering sensitivity and polarization information. The analysis of three case studies evidences the important combi...