Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2481-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2481-2020
Research article
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19 May 2020
Research article |  | 19 May 2020

Learning about the vertical structure of radar reflectivity using hydrometeor classes and neural networks in the Swiss Alps

Floor van den Heuvel, Loris Foresti, Marco Gabella, Urs Germann, and Alexis Berne

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In areas with reduced visibility at the ground level, radar precipitation measurements higher up in the atmosphere need to be extrapolated to the ground and be corrected for the vertical change (i.e. growth and transformation) of precipitation. This study proposes a method based on hydrometeor proportions and machine learning (ML) to apply these corrections at smaller spatiotemporal scales. In comparison with existing techniques, the ML methods can make predictions from higher altitudes.