VOLTAIRE: a 5/sup th/ framework programme research and technological development project for validation of precipitation fields

Author

Gabella, M. ; Perona, G.

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Politecnico di Torino, Italy

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

13

Abstract

VOLTAIRE is an international partnership (started in 2003) co-funded by the European Commission within the RTD activities of the 5/sup th/ Framework Programme. VOLTAIRE stands for "Validation Of muLTisensors precipitAtIon fields and numerical modeling in mediterRanEan test sites". This paper briefly describes the project with a special focus on the preliminary results obtained by comparing (for the 1/sup st/ time in Europe) spaceborne and ground-based weather radar observations.

Keywords

meteorological radar; numerical analysis; rain; sensor fusion; spaceborne radar; VOLTAIRE; Validation Of muLTisensors precipitAtIon fields; framework programme; ground-based weather radar; mediterranean test sites; numerical modeling; precipitation fields; research-technological development project; spaceborne radar; validation multisensor; Energy measurement; Europe; Instruments; Meteorological radar; Numerical models; Radar measurements; Rain; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2003. RAST '03. International Conference on. Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Istanbul, Turkey

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8142-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2003.1303382

Filename

1303382