We present the NEFOCAST project (named by the contraction of "Nefele", which is the Italian spelling for the mythological cloud nymph Nephele, and "forecast"), funded by the Tuscany Region, about the feasibility of a system for the detection and monitoring of precipitation fields over the regional territory based on the use of a widespread network of new-generation Eutelsat "SmartLNB" (smart lo...

Weather radars are used to measure the electromagnetic radiation backscattered by cloud raindrops. Clouds that backscatter more electromagnetic radiation consist of larger droplets of rain and therefore they produce more rain. The idea is to estimate rain rate by using weather radar as an alternative to rain-gauges measuring rainfall on the ground. In an experiment during two days in June and A...

A nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model is proposed for relating precipitation occurrences at multiple rain gauge stations to broad-scale atmospheric circulation patterns (the so-called \downscaling problem"). We model a 15 year sequence of winter data from 30 rain stations in southwestern Australia. The rst 10 years of data are used for model development and the remaining 5 years are used for mod...

This paper deals with the design of a diagnosis tool for a network of rain gauge sensors in the context of human-machine cooperation. The model of the whole system is difficult to be completely established before the diagnosis analysis. A part of the expert’s knowledge is tacit and it’ll be exploited during the diagnostic process e.g. expert analyzes the hyetograph of rainfall of a cluster of r...

Measurements of rain were obtained with a vertically pointing micro radar (MRR) with 1 min time resolution and 50(100) m height resolution at the German Baltic coast on the Zingst peninsula (54.43°N, 12.67°E). The comparison with a conventional rain gauge (30 min integration time) for a fi ve months summer period show a correlation coeffi cient of r = 0.87 for the rainrate and agreement within ...