Consolidating Gauge, Weather Radar and GPM DPR Level 2A Observations of High-intensity Rainfall Events in the Netherlands

The Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar on board the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite has been providing precipitation products across the globe for over 6 years, thereby even supplying precipitation estimates for areas on Earth where surface-based precipitation measurements are not possible, like in remote regions,...

Nowcasting heavy precipitation in the Netherlands: a deep learning approach

Accurate short-term forecasts, also known as nowcasts, of heavy precipitation are desirable for creating early warning systems for extreme weather and its consequences, e.g. urban flooding. In this research, we explore the use of machine learning for short-term prediction of heavy summer rainfall showers in the Netherlands. We explore the use of...

Clutter-Contaminated Signal Recovery in Spectral Domain for Polarimetric Weather Radar

The use of spectral polarimetric filters in the range-Doppler domain shows great promise for clutter mitigation in weather radar applications. One limitation of these filters is that they cannot deal with situations in which ground clutter and precipitation overlap. In this letter, we propose a new signal recovery technique based on kriging in...

Advanced Techniques In Clutter Mitigation And Calibration For Weather Radars

Weather observation is becoming more important than ever because extreme weather, such as tropical cyclones, thunderstorms and heavy rain, is more common nowadays. To observe and forecast the atmospheric phenomena at high spatial and temporal resolution, weather radar is well recognized as an effective tool. The prerequisite of using weather...

UAV-aided weather radar calibration

Weather radar is well recognized as an effective sensor for obtaining the microphysical and dynamical properties of precipitation at high spatial and temporal resolution. Radar calibration is one of the most important prerequisites for achieving accurate observations. In this article, a portable, cost-effective and repeatable radar calibration...

Design of a High Resolution X-band Doppler Polarimetric Weather Radar

The impact of the increase in anthropogenic aerosols on the global climate and the precipitation cycle is not yet fully understood. One of the reasons for that is the lack of sound measurements. In particular, high temporal and spatial resolution measurements of precipitation, coupled with measurements from other instruments, would be desired to...

Ground-based remote sensing of precipitation using a multi-polarized FM-CW Doppler radar