Everything about Gprof

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GprofA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: qprof: A gprof-Inspired Quantum ProfilerInfluential work since 2022
3. Read the landmark paper: The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave SensorsCited 538 times
4. Go sideways: Profiling (computer programming)A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Call graphA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

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

  Christian Kummerow, Y. Hong, W. S. Olson · 2001 · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 538 citations

• Gprof

  Susan L. Graham, Peter B. Kessler, Marshall K. Mckusick · 1982 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 301 citations

• gprof

  Susan L. Graham, Peter B. Kessler, Marshall K. McKusick · 2004 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 100 citations

• GPROF-NN: a neural-network-based implementation of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm

  Simon Pfreundschuh, Paula J. Brown, Christian D. Kummerow · 2022 · Atmospheric Measurement Techniques · 29 citations

• GPROF V7 and beyond: assessment of current and potential future versions of the GPROF passive microwave precipitation retrievals against ground radar measurements over the continental US and the Pacific Ocean

  Simon Pfreundschuh, Clément Guilloteau, Paula J. Brown · 2024 · Atmospheric Measurement Techniques · 19 citations

• An Evaluation of Over-Land Rain Rate Estimates by the GSMaP and GPROF Algorithms: The Role of Lower-Frequency Channels

  Shinta SETO, Takuji KUBOTA, Toshio IGUCHI · 2009 · Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II · 16 citations

• Practical experience of the limitations of gprof

  Dominic A. Varley · 1993 · Software: Practice and Experience · 15 citations

• Rain-Rate Characteristics over the Korean Peninsula and Improvement of the Goddard Profiling (GPROF) Database for TMI Rainfall Retrievals

  Geun-Hyeok Ryu, Byung-Ju Sohn, Christian D. Kummerow · 2012 · Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · 12 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• qprof: A gprof-Inspired Quantum Profiler

  Adrien Suau, Gabriel Staffelbach, Aida Todri-Sanial · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing · 8 citations

• Assessing sampling and retrieval errors of GPROF precipitation estimates over the Netherlands

  Linda Bogerd, Hidde Leijnse, Aart Overeem · 2024 · Atmospheric Measurement Techniques · 3 citations

• Comparing GPROF V7 and commercial microwave link precipitation estimates with DPR in the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Nigeria

  Linda Bogerd, Bas Walraven, Aart Overeem · 2026 · Hydrological Sciences Journal · 0 citations

• An Evaluation of GPROF-Based Snowfall Retrievals and Their Training Data

  Ryan Gonzalez, Christian D. Kummerow · 2025 · Journal of Hydrometeorology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

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