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A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau

Speirs, Peter ; Gabella, Marco ; Berne, Alexis

Journal of hydrometeorology, 2017-05, Vol.18 (5), p.1247-1269 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Boston: American Meteorological Society

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A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau
Autor: Speirs, Peter ; Gabella, Marco ; Berne, Alexis
Assuntos: Aircraft ; Architectural engineering ; Atmospheric precipitations ; Bias ; C band ; Climatic conditions ; Complexity ; Detection ; Dual polarization radar ; Environmental engineering ; Errors ; Estimates ; Evaluation ; Experiments ; Global precipitation ; Hydrology ; Laboratories ; Mountains ; Plateaus ; Polarization ; Precipitation ; Precipitation estimation ; Precipitation rate ; Radar ; Radar rainfall ; Radiometers ; Rain ; Rainfall ; Rainfall rate ; Reliability analysis ; Reliability aspects ; Remote sensing ; Terrain ; Winter
É parte de: Journal of hydrometeorology, 2017-05, Vol.18 (5), p.1247-1269
Descrição: The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) provides a unique set of three-dimensional radar precipitation estimates across much of the globe. Both terrain and climatic conditions can have a strong influence on the reliability of these estimates. Switzerland provides an ideal testbed to evaluate the performance of the DPR in complex terrain: it consists of a mixture of very complex terrain (the Alps) and the far flatter Swiss Plateau. It is also well instrumented, covered with a dense gauge network as well as a network of four dual-polarization C-band weather radars, with the same instrument network used in both the Plateau and the Alps. Here an evaluation of the GPM DPR rainfall rate products against the MeteoSwiss radar rainfall rate product for the first two years of the GPM DPR's operation is presented. Errors in both detection and estimation are considered, broken down by terrain complexity, season, precipitation phase, precipitation type, and precipitation rate. Errors are considered both integrated across the entire domain and spatially, and consistent underestimation of precipitation by GPM is found. This rises to −51% in complex terrain in the winter, primarily due to the predominance of DPR measurements wholly in the solid phase, where problems are caused by lower reflectivities. The smaller vertical extent of precipitation in winter is also likely a cause. Both detection and estimation performance are found to be significantly better in summer than in winter, in liquid than in solid precipitation, and in flatter terrain than in complex terrain.
Editor: Boston: American Meteorological Society
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A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau

Speirs, Peter ; Gabella, Marco ; Berne, Alexis

Boston: American Meteorological Society

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