Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7445-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7445-2025
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08 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 08 Dec 2025

Information-theoretic analysis of commercial microwave link and environmental variables in rainfall estimation

Anna Špačková, Martin Fencl, and Vojtěch Bareš

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This study uses information theory to enhance rainfall retrieval from attenuation data of commercial microwave links (CML). The framework enables evaluation of the performance of CMLs as rainfall sensors in a probabilistic manner and assessment of information content of an arbitrary variable for the rainfall retrieval, e.g. synoptic type. The study shows that using the information theory concept can also directly improve data processing of attenuation data, in this case dry-wet classification.
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