Prediction of rainfall intensity measurement errors using commercial microwave communication links

Dynamic rainfall monitoring using microwave links

In this work, we propose a sparsity-exploiting dynamic rainfall monitoring methodology using rain-induced attenuation measurements frommicrowave links. To estimate rainfall field intensity dynamically from a limited number of non-linear measurements, we exploit physical properties of the rainfall such as spatial sparsity and non-negativity along with the dynamics of rainfall intensity. We devel...

Humidity Measurements using Commercial Microwave Links

Uncertainties in rainfall maps from microwave links

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Beamfilling Errors in Passive Microwave Rainfall Retrievals

There are currently large numbers of rainfall retrieval algorithms based upon passive microwave radiances. Most of these algorithms are physically based in that they use explicit physical assumptions to derive relationships between brightness temperatures (Tb’s) and rainfall. If these assumptions involve observable quantities, then the physical basis of the algorithms can be extended to determi...

Path-averaged rainfall estimation using microwave links: Uncertainty due to spatial rainfall variability

[1] Microwave links can be used to estimate the pathaveraged rain rate along the link when precipitation occurs. They take advantage of the near proportionality between the specific attenuation affecting the link signal and the rain rate. This paper deals with the influence of the spatial variability of rainfall along the link on the accuracy of the rainfall estimates. We focus on single-polari...