Thunderstorm passage over a tipping bucket rain gauge: 4 September 2013

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CSU-CHILL S-band data collected in an RHI scan through a thunderstorm that produced high rainfall rates at a tipping bucket rain gauge located 79 km south of the radar. Combined time histories of reflectivity, Kdp, and the rain gauge data have been prepared.





Reflectivity loop


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Specific propagation differential phase loop


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Under-reporting errors at rates of 50 mm/hr and above: Humphrey et al JTEC 1997 p1513-1519