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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Radar and Remote Sensing (TyWRRS), 2012 Tyrrhenian Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Naples
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2443-4
DOI :
10.1109/TyWRRS.2012.6381124
