Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXX

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2. Measurement of precipitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The 2D-Video-Distrometer

      • Michael Schönhuber, Günter Lammer, Walter L. Randeu

      Pages 3-31

   3. Using vibrating-wire technology for precipitation measurements

      • Claude E. Duchon

      Pages 33-58

   4. Measurements of light rain, drizzle and heavy fog

      • Ismail Gultepe

      Pages 59-82

   5. The Droplet Spectrometer – a measuring concept for detailed precipitation characterization

      • Sebastian Glasl, Magnus Anselm

      Pages 83-99

   6. Quality control of precipitation data

      • Thomas Einfalt, Silas Michaelides

      Pages 101-126

3. Estimation of precipitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-129

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   2. Global precipitation measurement

      • Arthur Y. Hou, Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Christian D. Kummerow, James Marshall Shepherd

      Pages 131-169

   3. Operational discrimination of raining from non-raining clouds in mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data

      • Thomas Nauss, Boris Thies, Andreas Turek, Jörg Bendix, Alexander Kokhanovsky

      Pages 171-194

   4. Estimation of precipitation from space-based platforms

      • Itamar M. Lensky, Vincenzo Levizzani

      Pages 195-217

   5. Combined radar–radiometer retrievals from satellite observations

      • Mircea Grecu, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

      Pages 219-230

4. Ground estimation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Rain microstructure from polarimetric radar and advanced disdrometers

      • Merhala Thurai, V. N. Bringi

      Pages 233-284

   3. On the use of spectral polarimetry to observe ice cloud microphysics with radar

      • Herman Russchenberg, Lennert Spek, Dmitri Moisseev, Christine Unal, Yann Dufournet, Chandrasekhar Venkatachalam

      Pages 285-312

   4. Performance of algorithms for rainfall retrieval from dual-polarization X-band radar measurements

      • Marios N. Anagnostou, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

      Pages 313-340

5. Underwater estimation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341

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   2. Underwater acoustic measurements of rainfall

      • Eyal Amitai, Jeffrey A. Nystuen

      Pages 343-363

6. Prediction of precipitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 365-365

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   2. Probabilistic evaluation of ensemble precipitation forecasts

      • Bodo Ahrens, Simon Jaun

      Pages 367-388

Water cycling and the future availability of fresh water resources are immense societal concerns that impact all nations on Earth as it affects virtually every environmental issue. Precipitation is also a fundamental component of the weather/climate system for it regulates the global energy and radiation balance through coupling to clouds, water vapor, global winds and atmospheric transport. Accurate and comprehensive information on precipitation is essential for understanding the global water/energy cycle and for a wide range of research and applications with practical benefits to society. However, rainfall is difficult to measure because precipitation systems tend to be random in character and also evolve and dissipate very rapidly. It is not uncommon to see a wide range of rain amounts over a small area; and in any given area, the amount of rain can vary significantly over a short time span. These factors together make precipitation difficult to quantify, yet measurements at such local scales are needed for many hydrometeorological applications such as flood and landslide forecasting. Historical, multi-decadal measurements of precipitation from surface-based rain gauges are available over continents, but oceans remained largely unobserved prior to the beginning of the satellite era. Early visible and infrared satellites provided information on cloud tops and their horizontal extent; however, wide-band microwave frequencies proved extremely useful for probing into the precipitating liquid and ice layers of clouds.

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