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http://dx.doi.org/10.14191/Atmos.2014.24.3.365

Merging Radar Rainfalls of Single and Dual-polarization Radar to Improve the Accuracy of Quantitative Precipitation Estimation  

Lee, Jae-Kyoung (Korea Meteorological Administration Weather Radar Center)
Kim, Ji-Hyeon (Korea Meteorological Administration Weather Radar Center)
Park, Hye-Sook (Korea Meteorological Administration Weather Radar Center)
Suk, Mi-Kyung (Korea Meteorological Administration Weather Radar Center)
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Atmosphere / v.24, no.3, 2014 , pp. 365-378 More about this Journal
Abstract
The limits of S-band dual-polarization radars in Korea are not reflected on the recent weather forecasts of Korea Meteorological Administration and furthermore, they are only utilized for rainfall estimations and hydrometeor classification researches. Therefore, this study applied four merging methods [SA (Simple Average), WA (Weighted Average), SSE (Sum of Squared Error), TV (Time-varying mergence)] to the QPE (Quantitative Precipitation Estimation) model [called RAR (Radar-AWS Rainfall) calculation system] using single-polarization radars and S-band dual-polarization radar in order to improve the accuracy of the rainfall estimation of the RAR calculation system. As a result, the merging results of the WA and SSE methods, which are assigned different weights due to the accuracy of the individual model, performed better than the popular merging method, the SA (Simple Average) method. In particular, the results of TVWA (Time-Varying WA) and TVSSE (Time-Varying SSE), which were weighted differently due to the time-varying model error and standard deviation, were superior to the WA and SSE. Among of all the merging methods, the accuracy of the TVWA merging results showed the best performance. Therefore, merging the rainfalls from the RAR calculation system and S-band dual-polarization radar using the merging method proposed by this study enables to improve the accuracy of the quantitative rainfall estimation of the RAR calculation system. Moreover, this study is worthy of the fundamental research on the active utilization of dual-polarization radar for weather forecasts.
Keywords
Merging method; radar-AWS rainrate calculation system; S-band dual-polarization radar; radar precipitation estimation;
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