Significant improvement in the rainfall measurement method using weather radar

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has developed a method that significantly improves rainfall measurements with weather radar, and has already been implemented for long-term daily use.

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Senior researcher Jarmo Koistinen, tel. +358 50 563 5166, jarmo.koistinen@fmi.fi

Koistinen, J. and Pohjola, H., 2014: Estimation of ground-level reflectivity factor in operational weather radar networks using VPR-based correction ensembles. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 53, 2394-2411.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0343.1