Abstract: This study presents empirical analysis of the errors in tipping-bucket rain gauges that manifest themselves as random differences between closely collocated instruments. It is based on a substantial data sample from 15 ...

Abstract: A simple, analytically tractable model of the radar?rain gauge rainfall observational process, including measurement errors, is presented. The model is applied to study properties of different reflectivity?rainfall (Z?R) ...

Abstract: This study discusses questions of estimating correlation coefficient of point rainfall as observed at two measuring stations. The focus is on issues such as sensitivity to sample size, extreme rain events, and distribution ...

Abstract: The goal of this study is to improve understanding of the optimization criteria for radar rainfall (RR) products. Conditional bias (CB) is formally defined and discussed. The CB is defined as the difference between a given ...

Abstract: Although it is broadly acknowledged that the radar-rainfall (RR) estimates based on the U.S. national network of Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) stations contain a high degree of uncertainty, no methods ...

Abstract: This study presents the construction and calibration of a low-cost piezoelectric microprocessor impactometer designed for the field measurements of the rainfall kinetic energy (KE) flux. Its precise calibration was performed ...

Abstract: The problem of anomalous propagation (AP) echoes in weather radar observations has become especially important now that rainfall data from fully automatic radar systems are sometimes applied in operational hydrology. ...

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Abstract: The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) established a multiyear global dataset of satellite-based estimates of monthly rainfall accumulations averaged over a grid of 2.5° ? 2.5° geographical boxes. This paper ...

Abstract: This study presents a multicomponent rainfall estimation algorithm, based on weather radar and rain gauge network, that can be used as a ground-based reference in the satellite Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). ...