Rainfall Estimation Accuracy of a Nationwide Instantaneously Sampling Commercial Microwave Link Network: Error Dependency on Known Characteristics

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology - Tập 36 Số 7 - Trang 1267-1283 - 2019
Lotte de Vos1, Aart Overeem1, Hidde Leijnse2, R. Uijlenhoet3
1Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), de Bilt, and Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
2Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, Netherlands
3Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

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AbstractCommercial microwave links are installed and maintained for the purpose of telecommunication. Hydrometeors between transmitting and receiving antennas cause the microwave signal to be attenuated. From signal attenuation, the path-averaged rainfall intensity can be calculated. A 7-month dataset of instantaneously logged signal powers from almost 2000 unique links in the Netherlands is analyzed. Rainfall intensities are calculated with the RAINLINK package with a novel preprocessing module, enabling the package to be applied on instantaneously logged data from now on. Rainfall intensities per link are validated with the path-averaged rainfall intensities according to a gauge-adjusted radar product. Both the overall performance and the dependence of errors on link characteristics and measurement conditions are evaluated. The coefficient of variation decreases from 3.70 to 2.32 and the correlation increases from 0.30 to 0.63 from instantaneous to daily estimates of rainfall accumulations. The coefficient of variation is also smaller during heavy rainfall. Errors are largest for pathlengths shorter than 2 km, for observations during the late night and early morning, and for observations during colder months (when solid or melting precipitation could occur and dew is more likely to form on the antennas). Comparison of our results with those of earlier studies shows that minimum/maximum sampling (widely employed in network management systems) outperforms instantaneous sampling regarding detection of both quantity and occurrence of rain at a 15-min sampling rate in the Dutch climate.

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Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Tập 36 Số 7

1267-1283

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