Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-617-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-617-2017
Research article
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31 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2017

Gauge-adjusted rainfall estimates from commercial microwave links

Martin Fencl, Michal Dohnal, Jörg Rieckermann, and Vojtěch Bareš

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (09 Nov 2016) by Chris Onof
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ED: Publish as is (04 Jan 2017) by Chris Onof
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Short summary
Commercial microwave links (CMLs) can provide rainfall observations with high space–time resolution. Unfortunately, CML rainfall estimates are often biased because we lack detailed information on the processes that attenuate the transmitted microwaves. We suggest removing the bias by continuously adjusting CMLs to cumulative data from rain gauges (RGs), which can be remote from the CMLs. Our approach practically eliminates the bias, which we demonstrate on unique data from several CMLs and RGs.