Quantitative precipitation estimation and rainfall monitoring based on meteorological data, potentially provides con- tinuous, high-resolution and large-coverage data, are of high practical use: Think of hydrogeological risk management, hydroelectric power, road and tourism. Both conventional long-range radars and rain-gauges suffer from measurement errors and difficulties in precipitation estimation. For efficient monitoring operation of localized rain events of limited extension and of small basins of interest, an unrealistic extremely dense rain gauge network should be needed. Alterna- tively C-band or S-band meteorological long range radars are able to monitor rain fields over wide areas, however with not enough space and time resolution, and with high purchase and maintenance costs. Short-range X-band radars for rain monitoring can be a valid compromise solution between the two more common rain measurement and observation instruments. Lots of scientific efforts have already focused on radar-gauge adjustment and quantitative precipitation estimation in order to improve the radar measurement techniques. After some considerations about long range radars and gauge network, this paper presents instead some examples of how X-band mini radars can be very useful for the observation of rainfall events and how they can integrate and supplement long range radars and rain gauge networks. Three case studies are presented: A very localized and intense event, a rainfall event with high temporal and spatial variability and the employ of X-band mini radar

X-Band Mini Radar for Observing and Monitoring Rainfall Events / Allegretti, Marco; Bertoldo, Silvano; Prato, Andrea; Lucianaz, Claudio; Rorato, Oscar; Notarpietro, Riccardo; Gabella, Marco. - In: ATMOSPHERIC AND CLIMATE SCIENCE. - ISSN 2160-0414. - ELETTRONICO. - 2:3(2012), pp. 290-297. [10.4236/acs.2012.238]

X-Band Mini Radar for Observing and Monitoring Rainfall Events

ALLEGRETTI, MARCO;BERTOLDO, SILVANO;PRATO, ANDREA;LUCIANAZ, CLAUDIO;RORATO, OSCAR;NOTARPIETRO, RICCARDO;GABELLA, MARCO
2012

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Quantitative precipitation estimation and rainfall monitoring based on meteorological data, potentially provides con- tinuous, high-resolution and large-coverage data, are of high practical use: Think of hydrogeological risk management, hydroelectric power, road and tourism. Both conventional long-range radars and rain-gauges suffer from measurement errors and difficulties in precipitation estimation. For efficient monitoring operation of localized rain events of limited extension and of small basins of interest, an unrealistic extremely dense rain gauge network should be needed. Alterna- tively C-band or S-band meteorological long range radars are able to monitor rain fields over wide areas, however with not enough space and time resolution, and with high purchase and maintenance costs. Short-range X-band radars for rain monitoring can be a valid compromise solution between the two more common rain measurement and observation instruments. Lots of scientific efforts have already focused on radar-gauge adjustment and quantitative precipitation estimation in order to improve the radar measurement techniques. After some considerations about long range radars and gauge network, this paper presents instead some examples of how X-band mini radars can be very useful for the observation of rainfall events and how they can integrate and supplement long range radars and rain gauge networks. Three case studies are presented: A very localized and intense event, a rainfall event with high temporal and spatial variability and the employ of X-band mini radar
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