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Weather Radar and Hydrology combines developments in weather radar technology with advances in hydrological application. It concerns the monitoring and forecasting of rainfall over space and time, and how the pattern of rainfall is transformed by a varied landscape into surface water runoff and river flow across a city, region or country. Thus it has significant practical application across water resource functions, including flood forecasting and warning, flood design, urban drainage management, water supply and environmental services.
Weather Radar and Hydrology brings together over 100 peer-reviewed papers from the International Symposium on Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH 2011, Exeter, UK) providing a valuable record of current activity in the field. The contributions address: (1) Weather radar theory, technology and systems (2) Rainfall estimation and quality control (3) Rainfall forecasting (nowcasting and numerical weather prediction) (4) Uncertainty estimation (5) Hydrological impact and design studies (6) Hydrological modelling and flood forecasting (7) Urban hydrology and water management applications
- Preface by R.J. Moore et al. v-vii
- Weather radar for hydrology – the UK experience and prospects for the future Malcolm Kitchen 3-8
- EUMETNET OPERA Radar Data Centre: providing operational, homogeneous European radar rainfall composites Stuart Matthews, Pascale Dupuy, Robert Scovell, Antoine Kergomard, Bernard Urban, Asko Huuskonen, Alison Smith & Nicolas Gaussiat 9-14
- Tri-agency radar networks in Korea: where are we heading? Gyuwon Lee, Sung-Hwa Jung, Jung-Hoon Lee, Yo-Han Cho, Kwang-Deuk Ahn, Bok-Haeng Heo & Choong-Ke Lee 15-19
- Compositing international radar data using a weight-based scheme Thomas Einfalt & Arnold Lobbrecht 20-25
- Estimating weather radar coverage over complex terrain Edwin Campos 26-32
- Evaluation and improvement of C-band radar attenuation correction for operational flash flood forecasting Stephan Jacobi, Maik Heistermann & Thomas Pfaff 33-38
- Emission: a simple new technique to correct rainfall estimates from attenuation due to both the radome and heavy rainfall Robert Thompson, Anthony Illingworth & James Ovens 39-44
- Techniques for improving ground clutter identification J. C. Nicol, A. J. Illingworth, T. Darlington & J. Sugier 45-51
- A probability-based sea clutter suppression method for polarimetric weather radar systems Ronald Hannesen & André Weipert 52-57
- Design of a clutter modelling algorithm based on SRTM DEM data and adaptive signal processing methods E. Gonzalez-Ramirez, M. A. Rico-Ramirez, I. Cluckie, J. I. De la Rosa Vargas & D. Alaniz-Lumbreras 58-63
- Radar bright band correction using the linear depolarisation ratio Anthony Illingworth & Robert Thompson 64-68
- Determining the vertical profile of reflectivity using radar observations at long range Kate Snow, Alan Seed & George Takacs 69-74
- Development of optimal functional forms of Z-R relationships Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu & Chandra Pathak 75-80
- Radar hydrology: new Z-R relationships over the Klang River Basin, Malaysia for monsoon season rainfall Suzana Ramli & Wardah Tahir 81-86
- Simultaneous measurements of precipitation using S-band and C-band polarimetric radars Alexander Ryzhkov, Pengfei Zhang, John Krause, Terry Schuur, Robert Palmer & Dusan Zrnic 87-92
- French-Italian X- and C-band dual-polarized radar network for monitoring South Alps catchments E. Moreau, E. Le Bouar, J. Testud & R. Cremonini 93-98
- Hail events observed by an X-band polarimetric radar along the French Mediterranean coast Erwan Le Bouar, Emmanuel Moreau & Jacques Testud 99-104
- Getting higher resolution rainfall estimates: X-band radar technology and multifractal drop distribution D. Schertzer, I. Tchiguirinskaia & S. Lovejoy 105-110
- Improvement of the dual-frequency precipitation retrieval method for a global estimation of Z-R relations Shinta Seto & Toshio Iguchi 111-116
- Dual-frequency measurement of rain using millimetre-wave radars: initial results Peter Speirs & Duncan Robertson 117-122
- Adaptive phased array radar technology for urban hydrological forecasting C. G. Collier, M. Hobby, A. Blyth, D. J. McLaughlin, J. McGonigal & C. P. McCarroll 123-128
- Quantitative precipitation estimation using commercial microwave links Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse & Remko Uijlenhoet 129-134
- Off-the-grid weather radar network for precipitation monitoring in western Puerto Rico Jorge M. Trabal, Gianni A. Pablos-Vega, José A. Ortiz, José G. Colom-Ustariz, Sandra Cruz-Pol, David J. McLaughlin, Michael Zink & V. Chandrasekar 135-140
- Estimation of rain kinetic energy flux density from radar reflectivity factor and/or rain rate Nan Yu, Guy Delrieu, Brice Boudevillain, Pieter Hazenberg & Remko Uijlenhoet 141-146
- Variability of rain microphysics using long-term disdrometer observations Tanvir Islam, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez & Dawei Han 147-152
- Long-term diagnostics of precipitation estimates and radar hardware monitoring: two contrasting components of a radar data quality management system Dawn Harrison & Adam Curtis 153-160
- NMQ/Q2: National Mosaic and Multi-sensor QPE System Kenneth Howard, Jian Zhang, Carrie Langston, Steve Vasiloff, Brian Kaney & Ami Arthur 163-168
- Quantitative precipitation estimate by complementary application of X-band polarimetric radar and C-band conventional radar Atsushi Kato, Masayuki Maki, Koyuru Iwanami, Ryouhei Misumi & Takeshi Maesaka 169-175
- X-band polarimetric quantitative precipitation estimation: the RHYTMME project Fadela Kabeche, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Béatrice Fradon & Pierre Tabary 176-181
- Evaluation of the performance of polarimetric quantitative precipitation estimators in an operational environment Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Béatrice Fradon, Abdel-Amin Boumahmoud & Pierre Tabary 182-187
- VPR corrections of cool season radar QPE errors in the mountainous area of northern California Youcun Qi, Jian Zhang, David Kingsmill & Jinzhong Min 188-193
- Toward a physically-based identification of vertical profiles of reflectivity from volume scan radar data Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Hervé Andrieu, Brice Boudevillain & Guy Delrieu 194-200
- Analysis of a scheme to dynamically model the orographic enhancement of precipitation in the UK Selena Georgiou, Nicolas Gaussiat & Huw Lewis 201-206
- Impact of quality control of 3-D radar reflectivity data on surface precipitation estimation Katarzyna Ośródka, Jan Szturc & Anna Jurczyk 207-212
- Real-time adjustment of radar data for water management systems using a PDF technique: The City RainNet Project John V. Black, Chris G. Collier, John D. Powell, Richard G. Mason & Rod J. E. Hawnt 213-218
- Raingauge quality-control algorithms and the potential benefits for radar-based hydrological modelling Phil J. Howard, Steven J. Cole, Alice J. Robson & Robert J. Moore 219-224
- Blending of radar and gauge rainfall measurements: a preliminary analysis of the impact of radar errors Daniel Sempere-Torres, Marc Berenguer & Carlos A. Velasco-Forero 225-230
- Application of radar-raingauge co-kriging to improve QPE and quality-control of real-time rainfall data Hon-Yin Yeung, Chun Man, Sai-Tick Chan & Alan Seed 231-236
- Combination of radar and raingauge observations using a co-kriging method Chung-Yi Lin & Tim Hau Lee 237-242
- Comparison of different radar-gauge merging techniques in the NWS multi-sensor precipitation estimator algorithm Emad Habib, Lingling Qin & Dong-Jun Seo 243-248
- Long-term evaluation of radar QPE using VPR correction and radar-gauge merging Edouard Goudenhoofdt & Laurent Delobbe 249-254
- A 10-year (1997–2006) reanalysis of Quantitative Precipitation Estimation over France: methodology and first results Pierre Tabary, Pascale Dupuy, Guy L’Henaff, Claudine Gueguen, Laetitia Moulin, Olivier Laurantin, Christophe Merlier & Jean-Michel 255-260
- Temporal and spatial variability of rainfall at urban hydrological scales I. Emmanuel, E. Leblois, H. Andrieu & B. Flahaut 261-266
- Comparison of optical flow algorithms for precipitation field advection estimation Thomas Pfaff & András Bárdossy 269-274
- Extending a Lagrangian extrapolation forecast technique to account for the evolution of rainfall patterns over complex terrain Pradeep V. Mandapaka, Urs Germann, Luca Panziera & Alessandro Hering 275-280
- Nowcasting of orographic rainfall by using Doppler weather radar L. Panziera, U. Germann, A. Hering & P. Mandapaka 281-286
- The relationships between the upstream wind and orographic heavy rainfall in southwestern Taiwan for typhoon cases Lei Feng, Pao-Liang Chang & Ben Jong-Dao Jou 287-292
- Use of ensemble radar estimates of precipitation rate within a stochastic, quantitative precipitation nowcasting algorithm Clive Pierce, Katie Norman & Alan Seed 293-298
- Probabilistic forecasting of rainfall from radar nowcasting and hybrid systems Sara Liguori & Miguel Rico-Ramirez 299-304
- PhaSt: stochastic phase-diffusion model for ensemble rainfall nowcasting N. Rebora & F. Silvestro 305-310
- Ensemble radar nowcasts – a multi-method approach Alrun Tessendorf & Thomas Einfal 311-316
- Application of Error-Ensemble prediction method to a short-term rainfall prediction model considering orographic rainfall Eiichi Nakakita, Tomohiro Yoshikai & Sunmin Kim 317-322
- On the DWD quantitative precipitation analysis and nowcasting system for real-time application in German flood risk management Tanja Winterrath, Wolfgang Rosenow & Elmar Weigl 323-329
- Aspects of applying weather radar-based nowcasts of rainfall for highways in Denmark M. R. Rasmussen, S. Thorndahl & M. Quist 330-335
- Use of radar data in NWP-based nowcasting in the Met Office Susan Ballard, Zhihong Li, David Simonin, Helen Buttery, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Nicolas Gaussiat & Lee Hawkness-Smith 336-341
- Quality monitoring of UK network radars using synthesised observations from the Met Office Unified Model Selena Georgiou, Nicolas Gaussiat, Dawn Harrison & Sue Ballard 342-347
- Operational radar refractivity retrieval for numerical weather prediction J. C. Nicol, K. Bartholemew, T. Darlington, A. J. Illingworth & M. Kitchen 348-353
- Assessment of radar data assimilation in numerical rainfall forecasting on a catchment scale Jia Liu, Michaela Bray & Dawei Han 354-359
- Convective cell identification using multi-source data Anna Jurczyk, Jan Szturc & Katarzyna Ośródka 360-365
- Error model for radar quantitative precipitation estimates in a Mediterranean mountainous context Guy Delrieu, Laurent Bonnifait, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter & Brice Boudevillain 369-374
- Investigating radar relative calibration biases based on four-dimensional reflectivity comparison Bong-Chul Seo, Witold F. Krajewski & James A. Smith 375-381
- A quality evaluation criterion for radar rain-rate data Chulsang Yoo, Jungsoo Yoon, Jungho Kim, Cheolsoon Park & Changhyun Jun 382-387
- Radar Quality Index (RQI) – a combined measure for beam blockage and VPR effects in a national network Jian Zhang, Youcun Qi, Carrie Langston & Brian Kaney 388-393
- Probabilistic rainfall warning system with an interactive user interface Jarmo Koistinen, Harri Hohti, Janne Kauhanen, Juha Kilpinen, Vesa Kurki, Tuomo Lauri, Antti Mäkelä, Pertti Nurmi, Pirkko Pylkkö, Pekka Rossi & Dmitri Moisseev 394-399
- Impact of small-scale rainfall uncertainty on urban discharge forecasts A. Gires, D. Schertzer, I. Tchiguirinskaia, S. Lovejoy, C. Onof, C. Maksimovic & N. Simoes 400-406
- Joint analysis of radar observation and surface hydrological effects during summer thunderstorm events P. P. Alberoni, M. Celano, R. Foraci, A. Fornasiero, A. Morgillo & S. Nanni 409-414
- Observations of hailstorms by X-band dual polarization radar Shin-Ichi Suzuki, Koyuru Iwanami, Takeshi Maesaka, Shingo Shimizu, Namiko Sakurai & Masayuki Maki 415-420
- Multifractal study of three storms with different dynamics over the Paris region I. Tchiguirinskaia, D. Schertzer, C. T. Hoang & S. Lovejoy 421-426
- Weather radar and hydrology: a UK operational perspective Robert J. Moore, Steven J. Cole & Alice J. Robson 429-434
- On the accuracy of the past, present, and future tools for flash flood prediction in the USA Jonathan J. Gourley, Zachary L. Flamig, Yang Hong & Kenneth W. Howard 435-440
- Real-time radar-rainfall estimation for hydrologic forecasting: a prototype system in Iowa, USA Witold F. Krajewski, Ricardo Mantilla, Bong-Chul Seo, Luciana Cunha, Piotr Domaszczynski, Radoslaw Goska & Satpreet Singh 441-447
- Which QPE suits my catchment best? M. Heistermann, D. Kneis & A. Bronstert 448-453
- Study on a real-time flood forecasting method for locally heavy rainfall with high-resolution X-band polarimetric radar information Makoto Kimura, Yoshinobu Kido & Eiichi Nakakita 454-459
- A rainfall–runoff model and a French-Italian X-band radar network for flood forecasting in the southern Alps D. Organde, P. Arnaud, E. Moreau, S. Diss, P. Javelle, J.-A. Fine & J. Testud 460-465
- River flow simulations with polarimetric weather radar M. A. Rico-Ramirez, V. N. Bringi & M. Thurai 466-471
- Using combined raingauge and high-resolution radar data in an operational flood forecast system in Flanders Inge De Jongh, Els Quintelier & Kris Cauwenberghs 472-477
- Comparison of raingauge and NEXRAD radar rainfall data for streamflow simulation for a southern Ontario catchment Rohit Sharma, Ramesh Rudra, Syed Ahmed & Bahram Gharabaghi 478-483
- Potential of radar data for flood forecasting and warning in lowland catchments in Ireland M. B. Desta, F. O’Loughlin & M. Bruen 484-489
- Operational use of nowcasting methods for hydrological forecasting by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Lucie Březková, Petr Novák, Milan Šálek, Hana Kyznarová, Martin Jonov, Petr Frolík & Zbyněk Sokol 490-495
- Flood nowcasting in the southern Swiss Alps using radar ensemble Katharina Liechti, Felix Fundel, Urs Germann & Massimiliano Zappa 496-501
- Assessment of typhoon flood forecasting accuracy for various quantitative precipitation estimation methods Tsung-Yi Pan, Yong-Jun Lin, Tsang-Jung Chang, Jihn-Sung Lai & Yih-Chi Tan 502-507
- Ensemble nowcasting of river discharge by using radar data: operational issues on small- and medium-size basins F. Silvestro & N. Rebora 508-513
- Influence of rainfall spatial variability on hydrological modelling: study by simulations I. Emmanuel, H. Andrieu, E. Leblois & N. Janey 514-519
- Quantifying catchment-scale storm motion and its effects on flood response Davide Zoccatelli, Marco Borga, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos & Emmanouil N. Anagnostou 520-525
- Improvement of rainfall–runoff modelling with distributed radar rainfall data: a case study in the Lez, French Mediterranean, catchment M. Coustau, V. Borrell-Estupina & C. Bouvier 526-531
- Representing the spatial variability of rainfall for input to the G2G distributed flood forecasting model: operational experience from the Flood Forecasting Centre David Price, Charlie Pilling, Gavin Robbins, Andy Lane, Graeme Boyce, Keith Fenwick, Rob 532-537
- Countrywide flood forecasting in Scotland: challenges for hydrometeorological model uncertainty and prediction Michael Cranston, Richard Maxey, Amy Tavendale, Peter Buchanan, Alan Motion, Steven Cole, Alice Robson, Robert J. Moore & Alex Minett 538-543
- Distributed flood forecasting for the management of the road network in the Gard Region (France) J.-P. Naulin, E. Gaume & O. Payrastre 544-549
- The AIGA method: an operational method using radar rainfall for flood warning in the south of France Pierre Javelle, Jean Pansu, Patrick Arnaud, Yves Bidet & Bruno Janet 550-555
- Uncertainty estimation of deterministic river basin response simulations at gauged locations Zachary L. Flamig, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Jonathan Gourley & Yang Hong 556-561
- Flash flood forecasting using Data-Based Mechanistic models and radar rainfall forecasts Paul J. Smith, Keith Beven, Luca Panziera & Urs Germann 562-567
- Urban flood prediction in real-time from weather radar and rainfall data using artificial neural networks Andrew P. Duncan, Albert S. Chen, Edward C. Keedwell, Slobodan Djordjević & Dragan A. Savić 568-573
- Contribution of weather radar data to hydropower generation optimization for the Rhone River (France) Benjamin Graff, Dominique Faure, Guillaume Bontron & Sebastien Legrand 574-580
- Relations between streamflow indices, rainfall characteristics and catchment physical descriptors for flash flood events P. A. Garambois, H. Roux, K. Larnier & D. Dartus 581-586
- Radar for hydrological modelling: new challenges in water quality and environment M. Bruen 587-592
- Advances in the application of radar data to urban hydrology Hans-Reinhard Verworn 595-600
- What is a proper resolution of weather radar precipitation estimates for urban drainage modelling? Jesper E. Nielsen, Michael R. Rasmussen & Søren Thorndahl 601-606
- The flooding potential of convective rain cells Efrat Morin & Hagit Yakir 607-613
- Analysis of different quantitative precipitation forecast methods for runoff and flow prediction in a small urban area Alma Schellart, Sara Liguori, Stefan Krämer, Adrian Saul & Miguel Rico-Ramirez 614-619
- On comparing NWP and radar nowcast models for forecasting of urban runoff S. Thorndahl, T. Bøvith, M. R. Rasmussen & R. S. Gill 620-625
- Decision support for urban drainage using radar data of HydroNET-SCOUT Arnold Lobbrecht, Thomas Einfalt, Leanne Reichard & Irene Poortinga 626-631
- Radar-based pluvial flood forecasting over urban areas: Redbridge case study Li-Pen Wang, Nuno Simões, Miguel Rico-Ramirez, Susana Ochoa, Joao Leitão & Čedo Maksimović 632-637
- A new FEH rainfall depth-duration-frequency model for hydrological applications Elizabeth J. Stewart, David G. Morris, David A. Jones & Cecilia Svensson 638-643
- Use of weather radar by the water industry in Scotland Steven J. Cole, Dominic McBennett, Kevin B. Black & Robert J. Moore 644-649
- Impact of Z-R relationship on flow estimates in central São Paulo Roberto V. Calheiros & Ana M. Gomes 650-654
- Derivation of seasonally-specific Z-R relationships for NEXRAD radar for a sparse raingauge network Samuel H. Rendon, Baxter E. Vieux & Chandra S. Pathak 655-660
- Weather radar to predict bathing water quality Murray Dale & Ruth Stidson 661-666
