Affiliation:
1. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Alpin Garmisch‐Partenkirchen Germany
2. Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology Institute of Geography University of Augsburg Augsburg Germany
Abstract
AbstractAn important aspect of rainfall estimation is to accurately capture extreme events. Commercial microwave links (CMLs) can complement weather radar and rain gauge data by estimating path‐averaged rainfall intensities near ground. Our aim with this paper was to investigate attenuation induced complete loss of signal (blackout) in the CML data. This effect can occur during heavy rain events and leads to missing extreme values. We analyzed 3 years of attenuation data from 4,000 CMLs in Germany and compared it to a weather radar derived attenuation climatology covering 20 years. We observed that the average CML experiences 8.5 times more blackouts than we would have expected from the radar derived climatology. Blackouts did occur more often for longer CMLs (e.g., >10 km) despite their increased dynamic range. Therefore, both the hydrometeorological community and network providers can consider our analysis to develop mitigation measures.
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Helmholtz Association
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Cited by
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