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Overview

Ralph Ferraro is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science as a subfield.

The scientist's work covers specific topics including precipitation measurement and analysis, meteorological phenomena and simulations, soil moisture and remote sensing, cryospheric studies and observations, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Ferraro has contributed to multiple publication venues. Noteworthy places where their research has appeared include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Several research papers highlight Ferraro's recent contributions:

  • "Hailstorm Detection by Satellite Microwave Radiometers" (2020) in Remote Sensing
  • "Performance of Radiative Transfer Models in the Microwave Region" (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "A New Method for Hail Detection from the GPM Constellation: A Prospect for a Global Hailstorm Climatology" (2020) in Remote Sensing
  • "A Snowfall Detection Algorithm for ATMS Over Ocean, Sea Ice, and Coast" (2022) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Intercomparison and Validation of MIRS, MSPPS, and IMS Snow Cover Products" (2020) in Advances in Meteorology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Huan Meng
  • Jifu Yin
  • Yalei You
  • Xiwu Zhan
  • Veljko Petković

Best Publications

  • The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-Present)

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;Alfred Chang;Ralph Ferraro

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Philip Arkin;Alfred Chang

  • The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

    Christian Kummerow;Y. Hong;W. S. Olson;S. Yang

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis (New Version 2.3) and a Review of 2017 Global Precipitation

    Robert F. Adler;Mathew R.P. Sapiano;George J. Huffman;Jian Jian Wang

  • GPCP Pentad Precipitation analyses: An experimental dataset based on gauge observations and satellite estimates

    Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Robert Adler

  • The Development of SSM/I Rain-Rate Retrieval Algorithms Using Ground-Based Radar Measurements

    Ralph R. Ferraro;Gerard F. Marks

  • Advanced microwave sounding unit cloud and precipitation algorithms

    Fuzhong Weng;Limin Zhao;Ralph R. Ferraro;Gene Poe

  • The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm to a Fully Parametric Scheme

    Christian D. Kummerow;David L. Randel;Mark Kulie;Nai-Yu Wang

  • Special sensor microwave imager derived global rainfall estimates for climatological applications

    Ralph R. Ferraro

  • An eight-year (1987-1994) time series of rainfall, clouds, water vapor, snow cover, and sea ice derived from SSM/I measurements

    Ralph R. Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng;Norman C. Grody;Alan Basist

  • MiRS: An All-Weather 1DVAR Satellite Data Assimilation and Retrieval System

    S-A Boukabara;K. Garrett;Wanchun Chen;F. Iturbide-Sanchez

  • A Screening Methodology for Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms

    Ralph R. Ferraro;Eric A. Smith;Wesley Berg;George J. Huffman

  • NOAA operational hydrological products derived from the advanced microwave sounding unit

    R.R. Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng;N.C. Grody;Limin Zhao

  • Results of WetNet PIP-2 Project

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

  • International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview

    Eric A. Smith;Ghassem Asrar;Yoji Furuhama;Amnon Ginati

  • NASDARainfall algorithms for AMSR-E

    T. Wilheit;C.D. Kummerow;R. Ferraro

  • Evaluation of Biases of Satellite Rainfall Estimation Algorithms over the Continental United States

    Jeffrey R. McCollum;Witold F. Krajewski;Ralph R. Ferraro;Mamoudou B. Ba

  • Effects of surface conditions on rain identification using the DMSP‐SSM/I

    Ralph R. Ferraro;Norman C. Grody;Gerard F. Marks

  • Determination of precipitable water and cloud liquid water over oceans from the NOAA 15 advanced microwave sounding unit

    Norman Grody;Jiang Zhao;Ralph Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng

  • Next generation of NOAA/NESDIS TMI, SSM/I, and AMSR‐E microwave land rainfall algorithms

    Jeffrey R. McCollum;Jeffrey R. McCollum;Ralph R. Ferraro;Ralph R. Ferraro

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman C. Grody
Norman C. Grody National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fuzhong Weng
Fuzhong Weng National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
Vincenzo Levizzani
Vincenzo Levizzani Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Christian D. Kummerow
Christian D. Kummerow Colorado State University
Chris Kidd
Chris Kidd Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas M. Smith
Thomas M. Smith National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Pingping Xie
Pingping Xie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park

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