The applicability of standard passive microwave data interpreting techniques to observing tropical cyclones is studied basing on the SSM/I observations of tropical cyclones in July-September 1994. It is shown that spatial distributions of wind speed retrieved from the SSM/I data provide a good description of tropical cyclones structure at distances of 200-300 km from the cyclone center including some quantitative parameters. The existing rain rate retrieval algorithms from the SSM/I data are classified according to results of their application to tropical cyclones observations.
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