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Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5669-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5669-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
Research article
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25 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 25 Oct 2019

Combined use of volume radar observations and high-resolution numerical weather predictions to estimate precipitation at the ground: methodology and proof of concept

Tony Le Bastard, Olivier Caumont, Nicolas Gaussiat, and Fatima Karbou

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The estimation of surface rainfall from radars becomes less effective at long ranges or in mountainous regions where the radar beam is far from the ground. The method proposed in this paper investigates how vertical profiles simulated from high-resolution model can be used to predict the evolution of the precipitation below the radar beam. Our results show that this novel method leads to better results than the current operational methods that either use climatological or idealised profiles.
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