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Evaluation of GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar Algorithms to Estimate Drop Size Distribution Parameters, Using Ground-Based Measurement over the Central Andes of Peru

dc.contributor.author Del Castillo-Velarde, C. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Kumar, S. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Valdivia-Prado, J.M. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Moya-Álvarez, A.S. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Flores-Rojas, J. L. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Villalobos-Puma, E. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Martínez-Castro, D. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Silva-Vidal, Y. es_PE
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description The present study comes under the project “MAGNET-IGP: Strengthening the research line in physics and microphysics of the atmosphere (Agreement No 010-2017-FONDECYT)”. Yamina Silva-Vidal, Jose Luis Flores-Rojas and Jairo Valdivia-Prado would like to acknowledge the Peruvian PPR068 programme "Reducción de vulnerabilidad y atención de emergencias por desastres" for financial support of their work. This work was done using computational resources, HPC-Linux -Cluster, from Laboratorio de Dinámica de Fluidos Geofísicos Computacionales at Instituto Geofísico del Perú (Grants 101-2014-FONDECYT, SPIRALES2012, IRD-IGP, Manglares IGP-IDRC, PP068 program).
dc.description.abstract The raindrop size distribution (DSD) parameters, which consists of the mass-weighted average diameter (Dm) and the scaling parameter for the concentration (Nw) are essential to estimate precipitation in numerical modelling and other research areas such as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite. In the present work, we used the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar algorithms (GPM-DPR), single (SF) and dual (DF) frequency, and in situ observations to derive the DSD parameters and evaluate the performance of algorithms under the complex orography and climate regime of the central Andes. We used data from optical disdrometer and Ka-band profiler radar over Huancayo Observatory during the austral summer monsoon. Our results indicate that the GPM-DPR algorithms have problems to correctly estimate the DSD parameters of convective rains due to the high variability in time and space of this type of rain and is the result of fixing the shape parameter (µ). The estimation of DSD parameters in stratiform rains, which are very common in the central Andes, is strongly affected by the limitation of the DF algorithm in light rain rates caused by its inability to estimate Dm < 1 mm. © 2021, King Abdulaziz University and Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
dc.description.sponsorship Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concytec
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00242-5
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85114187839
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/3000
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartof Earth Systems and Environment
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Radar
dc.subject Algorithms es_PE
dc.subject Andes es_PE
dc.subject Disdrometer es_PE
dc.subject DSD parameters es_PE
dc.subject GPM es_PE
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.04
dc.title Evaluation of GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar Algorithms to Estimate Drop Size Distribution Parameters, Using Ground-Based Measurement over the Central Andes of Peru
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dspace.entity.type Publication
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