ISSN 1000-0526
CN 11-2282/P
Application Research of Dual-Polarization Radar in Quality Control of Automatic Rain Gauge
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Sansha Meteorological Office of Hainan Province, Sansha 573100; Key Laboratory of South China Sea Meteorological Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Hainan Province, Haikou 570203; Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing 100089; Key Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation and Severe Storms, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049; Beijing Metstar Radar Co. 〖KG-*3〗Ltd, Beijing 100085

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    In this paper, the dual-polarization weather radar data are used to improve the quality of the automatic rain gauge data. The quality of the rain gauge data is improved by using the inverse distance weighting method (IDW), and the rain guage data after quality control are used to correct the rainfall data derived from dual-polarization radar. The quality control method is determined by using the revised radar-gauge data, and the quality of gauge data is comprehensively controlled from the perspective of spatial consistency and observation consistency. The comprehensive quality control method is verified by using a typhoon precipitation process. The results show that there are some misjudgments in the spatial consistency of rain gauge observations by only using IDW method, mainly due to the abruptness of local precipitation, the inhomogeneity of rainfall structure and the sparse distribution of rain gauges. The misjudgments caused by the simple use of spatial consistent property control method can be effectively reduced by combining with polarization radar. The rainfall estimations of radar have been greatly improved after the rain gauge calibration and correction so that the effectiveness of the polarization radar used in the quality control of the rain gauge is improved. During typhoon rainfall, about 5% of the rain gauges per hour are considered as the error sites with wrong results. This comprehensive quality control method has some misjudgments when the distribution of the rain gauge is sparse or when the rain gauge lies in the edge of precipitation.

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  • Received:December 20,2019
  • Revised:July 17,2020
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  • Online: September 28,2020
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