Commercial microwave links as a tool for operational rainfall monitoring in Northern Italy

Roversi, Giacomo; Alberoni, Pier Paolo; Fornasiero, Anna; Porcù, Federico

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5779-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5779-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5779-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

Research article

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30 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 30 Oct 2020

Commercial microwave links as a tool for operational rainfall monitoring in Northern Italy

Giacomo Roversi, Pier Paolo Alberoni, Anna Fornasiero, and Federico Porcù

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5779-2020-supplement

Data sets

Radar meteo SIMC - Unità Radarmeteorologia Radarpluviometria Nowcasting e Reti Non Convenzionali https://dati.arpae.it/dataset/radar-meteo

ERG5 - Dataset meteo orario e giornaliero dal 2001 Osservatorio Clima https://dati.arpae.it/dataset/erg5-interpolazione-su-griglia-di-dati-meteo

Model code and software

RAINLINK 1.14 - forked version for Emilia Romagna (Italy) G. Roversi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4153473

Short summary

The microwave signal travelling between two antennas of the commercial mobile backhaul network is strongly attenuated by rainfall. The open-source RAINLINK algorithm extracts rainfall rate maps, processing the attenuation data recorded by the transmission system. In this work, we applied RAINLINK to 357 Vodafone links in northern Italy and compared the outputs with the operational rain products of the local weather service (Arpae), outlining pros and cons and discussing error structure.