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Chris Kidd is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their academic work spans several domains within Earth and planetary sciences, focusing extensively on atmospheric science and environmental science.

The main fields of study for Chris Kidd include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

More specifically, their subfields of study are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Health

Their research topics concentrate on:

  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Chris Kidd's publication record includes several recent papers, listed below with year and publication venue:

  • The State of Precipitation Measurements at Mid-to-High Latitudes, 2023, Atmosphere
  • Enhancing Trmm-Era Neural Networks for Gpm-Era Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (Qpe), 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Discrimination of Light Precipitation from COWVR + TEMPEST, GMI, and ATMS Passive Microwave Radiometer Observations, 2025, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Enhancing learning for the future: a document analysis of serious child safeguarding case reviews with Romani and Traveller communities in England, 2025, Critical and Radical Social Work
  • GIRAFE v1: a global climate data record for precipitation accompanied by a daily sampling uncertainty, 2025, Earth system science data

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Atmosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Critical and Radical Social Work
  • Earth system science data

Chris Kidd also contributed to a book published by Springer Nature (Netherlands):

  • Satellite Precipitation Measurement, 2020

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chris Kidd include:

  • Vincenzo Levizzani
  • F. Joseph Turk
  • George J. Huffman
  • David T. Bolvin
  • Dan Braithwaite

Best Publications

  • COMPARISON OF NEAR-REAL-TIME PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES FROM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL MODELS

    Elizabeth E. Ebert;John E. Janowiak;Chris Kidd

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

    Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Walter A Petersen;Wesley Berg;Chris Kidd

  • So, How Much of the Earth's Surface Is Covered by Rain Gauges?

    Chris Kidd;Andreas Becker;George J. Huffman;Catherine L. Muller

  • Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission (IMERG)

    George J. Huffman;David T. Bolvin;Dan Braithwaite;Kuo-Lin Hsu

  • Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications

    Francisco J. Tapiador;F.J. Turk;Walt Petersen;Arthur Y. Hou

  • Global precipitation measurement

    Chris Kidd;George Huffman

  • Status of satellite precipitation retrievals

    C. Kidd;V. Levizzani

  • Intercomparison of global precipitation products : The third Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-3)

    Robert F. Adler;Christopher Kidd;Grant Petty;Mark Morissey

  • Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: current status and future potential

    Catherine Muller;Lee Chapman;Samuel Johnston;Chris Kidd;Chris Kidd

  • Satellite Rainfall Estimation Using Combined Passive Microwave and Infrared Algorithms

    Chris Kidd;Dominic R Kniveton;Martin C Todd;Tim J Bellerby

  • Intercomparison of high-resolution precipitation products over Northwest Europe

    C. Kidd;C. Kidd;P. Bauer;J. Turk;G. J. Huffman

  • Satellite rainfall climatology: a review

    C. Kidd

  • Results of WetNet PIP-2 Project

    E. A. Smith;J. E. Lamm;R. Adler;J. Alishouse

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's scientific achievements and societal contributions: reviewing four years of advanced rain and snow observations.

    Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Dalia Kirschbaum;Walter Petersen;George Huffman

  • Rainfall Estimation from a Combination of TRMM Precipitation Radar and GOES Multispectral Satellite Imagery through the Use of an Artificial Neural Network

    Tim Bellerby;Martin Todd;Dom Kniveton;Chris Kidd

  • Global precipitation measurements for validating climate models

    F.J. Tapiador;A. Navarro;V. Levizzani;E. García-Ortega

  • A Combined Satellite Infrared and Passive Microwave Technique for Estimation of Small-Scale Rainfall

    Martin C. Todd;Chris Kidd;Dominic Kniveton;Tim J. Bellerby

  • Algorithms for the retrieval of rainfall from passive microwave measurements

    T. Wilheit;R. F. Adler;S. Avery;E. Barrett

  • A Neural Networks–Based Fusion Technique to Estimate Half-Hourly Rainfall Estimates at 0.1° Resolution from Satellite Passive Microwave and Infrared Data

    Francisco J. Tapiador;Chris Kidd;Vincenzo Levizzani;Frank S. Marzano

  • The Global Satellite Precipitation Constellation: current status and future requirements

    Chris Kidd;George Huffman;Viviana Maggioni;Philippe Chambon

  • So, how much of the Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

    Chris Kidd;George Huffman;Dalia Kirschbaum;Gail Skofronick-Jackson

  • Status of Satellite Precipitation Retrievals

    Chris Kidd;Vincenzo Levizanni

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Dominic Kniveton
Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex
Pingping Xie
Pingping Xie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Vincenzo Levizzani
Vincenzo Levizzani Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Martin C. Todd
Martin C. Todd University of Sussex
Frank S. Marzano
Frank S. Marzano Sapienza University of Rome
Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Eric A. Smith
Eric A. Smith Florida State University

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