[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of radar gauge merging methods for quantitative precipitation estimates

... all methods is significantly reduced compared to the MAE of the original radar data ...rain gauge data, shows a result close to the RDA ...rain gauge network (see Sect. 5). The two geostatis- ... See full document

... Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) that would objectively blend real-time satellite quantitative precipitation estimates (SQPE) with radar and gauge ...of ... See full document

... of gauge-radar merging ...that radar tends to under- estimate rainfall during large magnitude convective events and over-estimate stratiform ...using radar corrected rainfall rates for ... See full document

... km) radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) consideration of many critical procedures, such as beam blockage analysis, ground-clutter filter, rain type identification and adaptive Z–R ... See full document

... Satellites are capable of observing large areas instanta- neously at a high resolution. They are particularly suitable for rainfall estimation in the tropics, which exhibit highly heterogeneous rainfall patterns due to ... See full document

... and gauge-corrected versions of P datasets ranged from − ...(GSMaP-Std Gauge V7) to + 0.20 (CMORPH-CRT V1.0; Table 3). GSMaP-Std Gauge V7 shows a large positive bias in the west ...its ... See full document

... of radar–rain gauge merging algo- rithms to precisely analyse convective precipitation pat- terns is of high interest for many applications, ...of methods like cross- validation and due ... See full document

... The differences in errors from the two periods may be a re- sult of insufficient length of data to achieve robust calibration (Berg et al., 2012), or it could be due to the non-stationarity of RCM bias. It is difficult ... See full document

... tive precipitation covers larger areas and is characterized by a more homogeneous distribution of rain intensity (Houze, 1997) and thus is mostly detected by gauge ... See full document

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... the radar-rainfall estimates is probably not constant for all thresholds and that, possibly, the model’s perceived skill may be adversely affected if the uncertainty in the observations is treated equally ... See full document

... when precipitation is derived from radar reflectivities such as the empirical (Z/R) reflectivity-rainfall relationship and errors induced by the radar measurement itself such as backscatter or ... See full document

... with precipitation gauge measurements, as reviewed by Maggioni et ...of gauge-based assessment studies confirmed the spa- tial variability of SPP efficiency in reproducing precipitation, so no ... See full document

... Weather radar observations are currently the most reliable method for remote sensing of ...of radar obser- vations and may limit seriously automated quantitative ap- plications of radar ... See full document

... networked radar systems (McLaughlin et al., 2005). The DCAS radar network is capable of high-resolution observa- tion over a large coverage area (Chandrasekar et ...the radar beam closer to the ... See full document

... gridded precipitation product based on both passive microwave data from low orbiting satellites and IR data from GOES satellite (Joyce et ...S) precipitation prod- ucts at spatial resolution as high as ... See full document

... Using all of these data in the methods as described in Sect. 2.2 requires binning. Our general binning strategy was to cover the entire data range, divide it into as few bins as possible to keep bin populations ... See full document

... estimate radar precipitations quantitatively in America and Japan, where radar is operated for the purpose of weather forecast, while radar equipment go through upgrade of radar equipment ... See full document

... and evaluation of hydraulic structures and flood risk management in urban and rural ...ing methods have been applied to derive IDF curves for short durations from better available daily observations (Yu et ... See full document