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Apr 26, 2012
Combining Radar and Rain Gauge Rainfall Estimates for Flood Forecasting Using Conditional Merging Method
Authors: Byung Sik Kim : [email protected], Jun Bum Hong [email protected], Hung Soo Kim [email protected], and Seok Young Yoon [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007: Restoring Our Natural Habitat
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Radar rainfall estimates are increasingly applied to flood applications. Early warning with the use of radar rainfall estimates and hydrologic models is crucial for minimizing flood and flash flood-related hazard. The strength of radar rainfall data, the ability to capture spatial rainfall information, is the weakness of rain gauge data and the weakness of radar rainfall data, inability to accurately capture rainfall amounts at a single location, is the strength of rain gauges. Therefore By merging the two datasets, the result is gauge adjusted radar rainfall data, a dataset that maintains volume accuracy at the gauge locations while retaining spatial information from Radar. The main idea of gauge adjustment is combine the individual strengths of the to measurement systems. In this paper describes a short overview over the gauge adjustment methods applied in operational fields. And the technique employed is a conditional merging technique(CM). To evaluate the this method, statistics and hyetograph for rain gauges and radar rainfalls are compared using hourly radar rainfall data from the Imjin-river, Gangwha, rainfall radar site. Results show that rainfall field estimated by Condional Merging method give the best results in a statistics and qualitative way.
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Senior Researcher, Water Resources Research Dept., Korea Institute of Construction Technology, 2311, Daehwa-Dong, Ilsan-Gu, Goyang-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea,. E-mail: : [email protected]
Researcher, Water Resources Research Dept., Korea Institute of Construction Technology,. E-mail: [email protected]
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University,. E-mail: [email protected]
Senior Research Fellow, Water Resources Research Dept., Korea Institute of Construction,. E-mail: [email protected]
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