Journal article
Initial Results of a New Composite-Weighted Algorithm for Dual-Polarized X-Band Rainfall Estimation
Journal of hydrometeorology, Vol.18(4), pp.1081-1100
04/01/2017
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0196.1
Abstract
Abstract Data analyses for the mobile Iowa X-band polarimetric (XPOL) radar from a long-duration rain event that occurred during the NASA Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) field campaign are presented. A network of six 2D video disdrometers (2DVDs) is used to derive four rain-rate estimators for the XPOL-5 radar. The rain accumulation validations with a collocated network of twin and triple tipping-bucket rain gauges have highlighted the need for combined algorithms because no single estimator was found to be sufficient for all cases considered. A combined version of weighted and composite algorithms is introduced, including a new R(Ah, Zdr) rainfall estimator for X band, where Ah is the specific attenuation for horizontal polarization and Zdr is the differential reflectivity. Based on measurement and algorithm errors, the weights are derived to be as piecewise constant functions over reflectivity values. The weights are later turned into continuous functions using smoothing splines. A methodology to derive the weights in near–real time is proposed for the composite-weighted algorithm. Comparisons of 2-h accumulations and 8-h event totals obtained from the XPOL-5 with 12 rain gauges have shown 10%–40% improvement in normalized bias over individual rainfall estimators. The analyses have enabled the development of rain-rate estimators for the Iowa XPOL.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Initial Results of a New Composite-Weighted Algorithm for Dual-Polarized X-Band Rainfall Estimation
- Creators
- Merhala Thurai - Colorado State UniversityKumar Vijay Mishra - University of IowaV. N Bringi - Colorado State UniversityWitold F Krajewski - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of hydrometeorology, Vol.18(4), pp.1081-1100
- DOI
- 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0196.1
- ISSN
- 1525-755X
- eISSN
- 1525-7541
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000104, name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, award: NNX14AJ81G; DOI: 10.13039/100000104, name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, award: NNX13AD83G; DOI: 10.13039/100000104, name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, award: NNX13AG94G
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984197115602771
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