Abstract
Abstract Parts I and II of this three part paper dealt with the error structure of differential reflectivity and X-band specific attenuation in rainfall as estimated by radar and surface disdrometers. In this Part III paper we focus on the error structure of the specific differential phase (KDP, °km−1) measurement in rainfall. This allows us to analyze three estimators of rainfall rate, the first based on the reflectivity factor ZH, the second based on combining reflectivity and ZDR, [R(ZH, ZDR)], and the third based on KDP alone, R(KDP). Simulations are used to model random errors in ZH, ZDR and KDP. Physical variations in the raindrop size distribution (RSD) are modeled by varying the gamma parameters (N0, D0, m) over a range typically found in natural rainfall. Thus, our simulations incorporate physical fluctuations onto which random measurement errors have been superimposed. Radar-derived estimates of R(ZH, ZDR) and R(KDP) have been intercompared using data obtained in convective rainfall with the NSS...
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