Articles | Volume 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-2-93-2005
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-2-93-2005
06 Apr 2005
06 Apr 2005

2-D spatial distribution of rainfall rate through combined use of radar reflectivity and rain gauge data

F. Cuccoli, L. Facheris, D. Giuli, and M. Casamaggi

Abstract. This paper describes and comments the results obtained applying a data processing method to a joint set of radar and a rain gauge data for estimating the 2-D rainfall field at ground averaged over a given observation time T and over a radar coverage area that includes a rain gauge network. The estimate of the rainfall field is based on the processing of a data set composed by rain gauge and horizontal reflectivity radar data gathered during a rainfall phenomenon. The procedure has been tested on an experimental data set collected in Tuscany in 1999.