Improving rainfall measurement in gauge poor regions thanks to mobile telecommunication networks
Marielle Gosset (CNRS-UPS)
Harald Kunstmann (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL))
François Zougmore (Université Ouagadougou)
Frederic Cazenave (IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement)
Hidde Leijnse (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI))
Remko Uijlenhoet (Wageningen University & Research)
Christian Chwala (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie)
Felix Keis (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie)
Ali Doumounia (Université Ouagadougou)
Barry Boubacar (West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL))
Modeste Kacou (Université Félix Houphouët Boigny)
Pinhas Alpert (Tel Aviv University)
Hagit Messer (Tel Aviv University)
Jörg Rieckermann (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)
Joost Hoedjes (International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC))
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Abstract
The International Workshop on Rainfall Measurement Based on Microwave (MW) links from Commercial Cellular Communication Networks (Rain Cell) was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 30 March to 2 April 2015. The workshop's main objective was to build awareness and provide training on a technique that can provide accurate rainfall mapping in areas with poor rain gauge or weather radar coverage. The workshop brought together 87 participants representing research centers and weather services from 18 countries. A subgroup of 30 workshop participants followed a 2-day technical training course that covered in detail the physics of microwave attenuation by rain, other sources of signal fluctuations such as wet antennas, signal processing techniques to detect wet and dry periods and quantify rain-induced attenuation, and quantitative rain-rate estimation from microwave attenuation.
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