Title :
Identification of gale weather with doppler weather radar data
Author :
Zhou, Jinlian ; Wei, Ming ; Wu, Tao ; Li, Nan
Author_Institution :
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, NUIST, Nanjing, China
Abstract :
With high temporal and spatial resolution, Doppler weather radars are important means for revealing structures and revolution of meso-micro scale weather processes. This article uses reflectivity characteristics to identify convective gale weather. 6 promising identification parameters are proposed (CR, VIL, DVIL, SWP, DCRH and SPEED), and an automated identification algorithm for convective gale is established based on fuzzy logic principles. 6 typical cases are used to obtain probability distribution characters based on the statistics of volume scan data, and then it is determined that CR, VIL, DVIL and SWP that have more concentrated probability densities are used as the input variables of the fuzzy logic technique for the identification of the convective gale. According to the statistics, these parameters can effectively identify convective gale. The algorithm identifies 150 from 174 gale wind events in 6 weather processes, with a POD probability 86.21%.
Keywords :
Doppler radar; Fuzzy logic; Meteorological radar; Reflectivity; Storms; Doppler weather radar; convective scale weather; probability densities; the fuzzy logic method;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9172-8
DOI :
10.1109/RSETE.2011.5965731