Relationships between data measured by weather radars and Meteosat Second Generation for convective storms
2009
Abstract
The contribution is focused on determination of qualitative and quantitative relationships between weather radars and the geostationary meteorological satellite with a high horizontal resolution. The paper also deals with an evaluation of accuracy of rainfall estimates based on Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) data.
These data containing Cloud top temperature have been converted to estimated rainfall rates using one of the Satellite Application Facilities (SAF) algorithms - Convective Rainfall Rate (CRR). The accuracy of rainfall estimates derived from MSG scans was verified with radar rainfall estimates merged with rain gauge stations.