GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment
(Proceedings of ICGRHWE held at the Three Gorges Dam, China, September 2003). IAHS Publ. 289, 2004, 11-20Weather radar technology and future developments
IAN DAVID CLUCKIE & MIGUEL ANGEL RICO-RAMIREZ
Water and Environmental Management Research Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UP, UK
i.d.cluckie@bristol.ac.uk
Abstract
Radar Hydrology is slowly coming of age and the future development of quantitative weather radar will be heavily influenced by the Hydrological community. There is controversy as to whether or not dual-polarization radar technology is going to improve the estimation of precipitation. This paper discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of the present algorithms used to estimate precipitation, using single- and dual-polarization weather radar measurements, and gives some recommendations for future research in this area.Key words
dual-polarization radar; hydrometeor classification; radar hydrology; rainfall estimators; vertical reflectivity profile; weather radar