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Apr 26, 2012
Use of Czech Weather Radar Network Data for Precipitation Estimating and Nowcasting
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
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The Czech weather radar network (CZRAD) is operated by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (national weather service of the Czech Republic). CZRAD data are used for severe weather and precipitation monitoring by national civil and military weather services, operational hydrology, air traffic control and many other users including general public. Several damaging floods, which hit the Czech Republic in last decade, emphasized importance of radar data for hydrological applications and accelerated research and development in the field of rainfall estimating and nowcasting. The development of the methods is performed in cooperation with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Czech Academy of Sciences) and US National Weather Service (US NWS). The paper presents the Czech weather radar network and operational implementations of radar based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) and forecast (QPF) methods. Status of the current development and future outlook is also discussed.
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© 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Air traffic control
- Air transportation
- Climates
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Equipment and machinery
- Hydrologic data
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Hydrometeorology
- Infrastructure
- Meteorology
- Precipitation
- Radar
- Rainfall
- Transportation engineering
- Water and water resources
- Weather forecasting
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Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Na Šabatce 17, 143 06 Prague, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected]
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Boční II, 141 31Prague, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected]
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