Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-261-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-261-2022
Research article
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19 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 19 Jan 2022

Improvement in algorithms for quality control of weather radar data (RADVOL-QC system)

Katarzyna Ośródka and Jan Szturc

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Weather radar data are used in weather monitoring and forecasting, but they are affected by numerous errors and require advanced corrections. Different systems are designed and implemented to suit specific local conditions, like the RADVOL-QC system. The radar errors are divided into several groups: disturbance by non-meteorological echoes (from the mountains, RLAN signals, wind turbines, etc.), beam blockage, attenuation, etc. Each of them has different properties and is corrected differently.
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