Review of the different sources of uncertainty in single polarization radar-based estimates of rainfall

G Villarini, WF Krajewski - Surveys in geophysics, 2010 - Springer
It is well acknowledged that there are large uncertainties associated with radar-based
estimates of rainfall. Numerous sources of these errors are due to parameter estimation, the …

[HTML][HTML] The accuracy of weather radar in heavy rain: a comparative study for Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden

M Schleiss, J Olsson, P Berg, T Niemi… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Weather radar has become an invaluable tool for monitoring rainfall and studying its link to
hydrological response. However, when it comes to accurately measuring small-scale rainfall …

On the use of dual-polarized C-band radar for operational rainfall retrieval in mountainous areas

G Vulpiani, M Montopoli, LD Passeri… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Radar-rainfall estimation is a complex process that involves several error sources, some of
which are related to the environmental context. The presence of orographic obstacles …

Monitoring storm evolution using a high-density seismic network

J Diaz, M Ruiz, M Udina, F Polls, D Martí, J Bech - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Data acquired by a dense seismic network deployed in the Cerdanya basin (Eastern
Pyrenees) is used to track the temporal and spatial evolution of meteorological events such …

Radar analysis of fall bird migration stopover sites in the northeastern US

JJ Buler, DK Dawson - The Condor: Ornithological Applications, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The national network of weather surveillance radars (WSR-88D) detects flying birds and is a
useful remote-sensing tool for ornithological study. We used data collected during fall 2008 …

Quantifying bird density during migratory stopover using weather surveillance radar

JJ Buler, RH Diehl - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly, data from weather surveillance radars are being used by biologists
investigating the ecology and behavior of birds, insects, and bats in the aerosphere …

Precipitation type classification of micro rain radar data using an improved doppler spectral processing methodology

A Garcia-Benadi, J Bech, S Gonzalez, M Udina… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper describes a methodology for processing spectral raw data from Micro Rain Radar
(MRR), a K-band vertically pointing Doppler radar designed to observe precipitation profiles …

[HTML][HTML] Performance assessment of GPM IMERG products at different time resolutions, climatic areas and topographic conditions in Catalonia

E Peinó, J Bech, M Udina - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPEs) from the Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for
GPM (IMERG) provide crucial information about the spatio-temporal distribution of …

Validation of GPM dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) rainfall products over Italy

M Petracca, LP D'Adderio, F Porcù… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Ka–Ku Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) and the Microwave Imager
on board the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite have been …

Creation of a high resolution precipitation data set by merging gridded gauge data and radar observations for Sweden

P Berg, L Norin, J Olsson - Journal of Hydrology, 2016 - Elsevier
Hydrological forecasting systems require accurate initial conditions, particularly for real time
precipitation data, which are problematic to retrieve. This is especially difficult for high …