Improving radar-based rainfall nowcasting by a nearest-neighbour approach – Part 1: Storm characteristics

Shehu, Bora; Haberlandt, Uwe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1631-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1631-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1631-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 6

Research article

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25 Mar 2022

Research article |

| 25 Mar 2022

Improving radar-based rainfall nowcasting by a nearest-neighbour approach – Part 1: Storm characteristics

Bora Shehu and Uwe Haberlandt

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Final revised paper (published on 25 Mar 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 May 2021)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on hess-2021-248', Ruben Imhoff, 27 May 2021

Dear authors,

Thanks for this interesting work. You can find my review in the attached pdf.

Kind regards,

Ruben Imhoff

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Bora Shehu, 02 Sep 2021
  
  Dear Ruben,
  thank you for your feedback in improving our manuscript. Please find attached our answers/discussion to the issues you have raised, and the updated plots and tables following the comments of all the reviewers.
  kind regards,
  Bora
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on hess-2021-248', Seppo Pulkkinen, 04 Jul 2021

It was a pleasure to review such an interesting work. Please find my report in the attached pdf.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Bora Shehu, 02 Sep 2021
  
  Dear Seppo,
  thank you for your feedback in improving our manuscript. Please find attached our answers/discussion to the issues you have raised, and the updated plots and tables following the comments of all the reviewers.
  kind regards,
  Bora
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-AC2
RC3:
'Comment on hess-2021-248', Georgy Ayzel, 09 Jul 2021

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2021-248/hess-2021-248-RC3-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-RC3
- AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Bora Shehu, 02 Sep 2021
  
  Dear Georgy,
  thank you for your feedback in improving our manuscript. Please find attached our answers/discussion to the issues you have raised, and the updated plots and tables following the comments of all the reviewers.
  kind regards,
  Bora
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-248-AC3

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (16 Sep 2021) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Bora Shehu on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Dec 2021) by Nadav Peleg

RR by Ruben Imhoff (09 Dec 2021)

RR by Seppo Pulkkinen (06 Jan 2022)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Jan 2022) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Bora Shehu on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Jan 2022) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Bora Shehu on behalf of the Authors (29 Jan 2022) Manuscript

Short summary

In this paper we investigate whether similar storms behave similarly and whether the information obtained from past similar storms can improve storm nowcast based on radar data. Here a nearest-neighbour approach is employed to first identify similar storms and later to issue either a single or an ensemble nowcast based on k most similar past storms. The results indicate that the information obtained from similar storms can reduce the errors considerably, especially for convective storm nowcast.