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Evaluating the accuracy of C- and X-band weather radars and their application for stream flow simulation

Author(s) -

Narayan Kumar Shrestha,

Toon Goormans,

Patrick Willems

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of hydroinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654

H-Index - 50

eISSN - 1465-1734

pISSN - 1464-7141

DOI - 10.2166/hydro.2012.120

Subject(s) - radar , environmental science , storm , meteorology , rain gauge , weather radar , flow (mathematics) , remote sensing , computer science , geography , mathematics , telecommunications , geometry

This paper investigates the accuracy of rainfall estimates from C and X-band weather radars and their application for stream flow simulation. Different adjustment procedures are applied to raw radar estimates using gauge readings from a network of 12 raingauges. The stream flow is simulated for the 48.17 km2 Molenbeek/Parkbeek catchment located in the Flemish region of Belgium based on a lumped conceptual model. Results showed that raw radar estimates can be greatly improved using adjustment procedures. The gauge-radar residuals however, remain large even after adjustments. The adjusted X-band radar estimates are observed to be better estimates than corresponding C-band estimates. Their application for stream flow simulation showed that raingauges and radars can simulate spatially more uniform winter storms with almost same accuracy where as differences are more evident on localized summer events.status: publishe

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