Abstract
High-precision retrieval of rainfall over large areas is of great importance for the research of atmospheric detection and the social life. With the rapid development of communication satellite constellations and 5G communication networks, the use of widely distributed networks of earth–space links (ESLs) and horizontal microwave links (HMLs) to retrieve rainfall over large areas has great potential for obtaining high-precision rainfall fields and complementing traditional instruments of rainfall measurement. In this paper, we carry out the research of combining multiple ESLs with HMLs to retrieve rainfall fields. Firstly, a rainfall detection network for retrieving rainfall fields is built based on the atmospheric propagation model of ESL and HML. Then, the ordinary Kriging interpolation (OK) and radial basis function (RBF) neural network are applied to the reconstruction of rainfall fields. Finally, the performance of the joint network of ESLs and HMLs to retrieve rainfall fields in the area is validated. The results show that the joint network of ESLs and HMLs based on OK algorithm and RBF neural network is capable of retrieving the distribution of rain rates in different rain cells with high accuracy, and the root mean square error (RMSE) of retrieving the rain rates of real rainfall fields is lower than 0.56 mm/h, and the correlation coefficient (CC) is higher than 0.996. In addition, the CC for retrieving stratiform rainfall and convective rainfall by the joint network of ESLs and HMLs is higher than 0.949, indicating that the characteristics of the two different types of rainfall events can be accurately monitored.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Excellent Youth Scholars of Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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