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Improving radar-based rainfall nowcasting by a nearest-neighbour approach – Part 1: Storm characteristics
Institute for Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Leibniz
University Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Uwe Haberlandt
Institute for Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Leibniz
University Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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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.
In this paper we investigate whether similar storms behave similarly and whether the information...