By Frank Gekat, Peter Meischner, Katja Friedrich, Martin Hagen (auth.), Dr. Peter Meischner (eds.)
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This type of gauge-radar comparison was conducted using radar data from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Danish data from Copenhagen, along with daily measurements from around 1600 gauges in the climate station networks in Norway, Sweden, and Finland (Michelson, 2001). In order for this kind of comparison to be meaningful, long integration periods must be used. Doing so has the effect of smoothing out much of the noise in both data sources. If there are no known climatologically forced precipitation gradients in a given radar's coverage area, then a long radar data integration in an ideal case will be isotropic about the radar itself while the gauge data integration will be more or less uniform in space.
Coverage of Europe with different types of weather rada rs. The circles indicat e 150 km radius . See also the color Fig. 2 on page 314 are reflectivity, Doppler velocity and Doppler spectral width, and further polarimetric quantities. As indicated by Fig. 22, Europe is rather well covered with weather radars of a variety of standards and in different operational environments. Products are available for single sites as well as from the different networks. cz/ OPERAj. The envisaged European standard is a C-band Doppler radar , although the Spanish network is composed of C- and S-band Doppler radars.
These special calibrations were preceded by ordinary receiver calibrations using the output of a signal generator injected into the waveguide. All loss figures were measured or calculated, but there was no tool to measure the loss in a dry radome. We had to rely on the manufacturers' figures which can be too small, especially in aged radomes. 24 F. Gekat et al. The aim of a feed-horn calibration is to calibrate the whole receiving chain from the radome to the AID converter. During all calibrations, the frequency of the emission from the signal generator was tuned to be equal to the radar receiver frequency.