Retrieval algorithm for rainfall mapping from microwave links in a cellular communication network

Overeem, Aart; Leijnse, Hidde; Uijlenhoet, Remko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2425-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2425-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2425-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

Research article

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01 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 01 Jun 2016

Retrieval algorithm for rainfall mapping from microwave links in a cellular communication network

Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, and Remko Uijlenhoet

Data sets

The RAINLINK microwave link data set A. Overeem, H. Leijnse, and R. Uijlenhoet https://github.com/overeem11/RAINLINK/tree/master/data

Radar precipitation climatology A. Overeem, H. Leijnse, and R. Uijlenhoet http://climate4impact.eu/impactportal/data/catalogbrowser.jsp?catalog=http://opendap.knmi.nl/knmi/thredds/radarprecipclim.xml

Short summary

Microwave links in commercial cellular communication networks hold a promise for areal rainfall monitoring and could complement rainfall estimates from ground-based weather radars, rain gauges, and satellites. It has been shown that country-wide rainfall maps can be derived from the signal attenuations of microwave links in such a network. Here we give a detailed description of the employed rainfall retrieval algorithm and the corresponding code, which is freely provided at GitHub.