Affiliation:
1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Abstract
Abstract
This paper presents the sensing aspects and performance evaluation of the quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) system in an X-band dual-polarization radar network developed by the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Engineering Research Center. CASA’s technology enables precipitation observation close to the ground and QPE is one of the important applications. With expanding urbanization all over the world, vulnerability to floods has increased from intense rainfall such as urban flash floods. The QPE products that are derived at high spatiotemporal resolution, which is enabled by the deployment of a dense radar network, have the potential to improve the prediction of flash-flooding threats when coupled with hydrological models. Derivation of QPE from radar observations is a challenging process, in which the use of dual-polarization radar variables is advantageous. At X band, the specific differential propagation phase (Kdp) between the orthogonal linear polarization states is particularly appealing. The Kdp field is robustly acquired using an adaptive estimation method, and a simple R(Kdp) relation is used to perform precipitation estimation in this X-band radar network. Radar observations and QPE from multiyear field experiments are used to demonstrate the performance of rainfall estimation from the single-parameter Kdp-based rainfall product. The operational feasibility of radar QPE using an X-band radar network is critically assessed.
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Subject
Atmospheric Science,Ocean Engineering
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