Abstract
Hurricane cloud and precipitation structure have been studied by means of IR and stereoscopic visual satellite data from synchronized scanning GOES-East and -West, in combination with ground-based radar data for Hurricane Frederico and time-composited airborne radar data for Hurricane Allen. It is noted that stereoscopically measured cloudtop height in these hurricanes is not as closely correlated to radar reflectivity at lower levels as it is in intense thunderstorms over land. This and other results obtained imply that satellite precipitation estimation techniques for tropical cyclones that are based on cloudtop measurements will not be accurate with respect to time and place scales that are less than several hours and a few hundred km, respectively.
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