• DocumentCode
    2523913
  • Title

    Rainfall monitoring based on microwave link attenuation and related tomographic processing

  • Author

    Cuccoli, Fabrizio ; Facheris, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Lab. of Radar & Surveillance Syst., Florence, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    12-14 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    176
  • Abstract
    The paper concerns the use of attenuation measurements over microwave link networks to provide time-continuous rainfall distribution estimates, evidencing the fact that the communications networks infrastructure can be used, and also that where a higher density of such links is available, tomographic reconstruction of the rainfall fields and accurate area rainfall estimates are possible, complementing and/or integrating monitoring capabilities of weather radars and raingauges.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; rain; weather forecasting; attenuation measurements; communications networks infrastructure; microwave link attenuation; microwave link networks; rainfall fields; rainfall monitoring; raingauges; time-continuous rainfall distribution estimates; tomographic processing; tomographic reconstruction; weather radars; Attenuation; Meteorology; Microwave measurements; Monitoring; Radar; Radio link; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advances in Radar and Remote Sensing (TyWRRS), 2012 Tyrrhenian Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Naples
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2443-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TyWRRS.2012.6381124
  • Filename
    6381124