Cifelli, R., Chandrasekar, V., Chen, H., Johnson, L. E. 2018. High Resolution Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in the San Francisco Bay Area: Rainfall Monitoring for the Urban Environment. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Meteorological Society of Japan. 96. 141-155

Assessment, Monitoring, Precipitation, Urban, Methods, Rainfall

This study used an X-band radar system to estimate precipitation in the urban region of Santa Clara, California (U.S.). The results indicate that the X-band radar is more accurate than the Next-Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) network.