Validation of the Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator with Polar55C real observations

Author

Lupidi, A. ; Lischi, S. ; Cuccoli, F. ; Baldini, Luca ; Roberto, Nicoletta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Infonnation Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A preliminary validation of the Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator (APDWRS) with real data is described in this paper. The APDWRS is used to reproduce an observation of a severe storm event which took place on the 15th of October 2012 over the Tyrrenian coast. One PPI scan performed by the dual polarization C-band Polar 55C weather radar at 17:30 UTC is simulated using APDWRS with meteorological data from the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model as input. The validity of the simulation is then compared both in the spatial domain and statistically observing the differences in the relationships between observables in real and simulated case.

Keywords

meteorological radar; polarisation; radar computing; radar polarimetry; AD 2012 10 15; APDWRS; PPI scan; Polar55C real observations; Tyrrenian coast; Weather Research and Forecast model; advanced polarimetric Doppler weather radar simulator; dual polarization C-band Polar 55C weather radar; meteorological data; severe storm event; spatial domain; Computational modeling; Correlation; Radar; Radar antennas; Rain; Receiving antennas; APDWRS; Polar55C; T-Matrix; WRF; Weather radar; simulator validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2014 15th International

Conference_Location

Gdansk

Print_ISBN

978-617-607-552-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2014.6869250

Filename

6869250