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http://dx.doi.org/10.14191/Atmos.2018.28.4.443

Characteristics of Summer Season Precipitation Motion over Jeju Island Region Using Variational Echo Tracking  

Kim, Kwonil (Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Ho-Woo (Korea Air Force Weather Group)
Jung, Sung-Hwa (Weather Radar Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
Lyu, Geunsu (Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, GyuWon (Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University)
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Atmosphere / v.28, no.4, 2018 , pp. 443-455 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nowcasting algorithms using weather radar data are mostly based on extrapolating the radar echoes. We estimate the echo motion vectors that are used to extrapolate the echo properly. Therefore, understanding the general characteristics of these motion vectors is important to improve the performance of nowcasting. General characteristics of radar-based motions are analyzed for warm season precipitation over Jeju region. Three-year summer season data (June~August, 2011~2013) from two radars (GSN, SSP) in Jeju are used to obtain echo motion vectors that are retrieved by Variational Echo Tracking (VET) method which is widely used in nowcasting. The highest frequency occurs in precipitation motion toward east-northeast with the speed of $15{\sim}16m\;s^{-1}$ during the warm season. Precipitation system moves faster and eastward in June-July while it moves slower and northeastward in August. The maximum frequency of speed appears in $10{\sim}20m\;s^{-1}$ and $5{\sim}10m\;s^{-1}$ in June~July and August respectively while average speed is about $14{\sim}15m\;s^{-1}$ in June~July and $8m\;s^{-1}$ in August. In addition, the direction of precipitation motion is highly variable in time in August. The speed of motion in Lee side of the island is smaller than that of the windward side.
Keywords
Variational echo tracking; Jeju island; motion vector;
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