Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates

Overeem, Aart; Leijnse, Hidde; van der Schrier, Gerard; van den Besselaar, Else; Garcia-Marti, Irene; de Vos, Lotte Wilhelmina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-649-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-649-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-649-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 28, issue 3

Research article

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14 Feb 2024

Research article |

| 14 Feb 2024

Merging with crowdsourced rain gauge data improves pan-European radar precipitation estimates

Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, Gerard van der Schrier, Else van den Besselaar, Irene Garcia-Marti, and Lotte Wilhelmina de Vos

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Preprint (discussion started on 12 Jun 2023)

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RC1:
'Comment on hess-2023-122', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Sep 2023

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Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2023-122-RC1
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'Comment on hess-2023-122', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Sep 2023

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Peer review completion

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (04 Nov 2023) by Yue-Ping Xu

AR by Aart Overeem on behalf of the Authors (04 Nov 2023) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (30 Dec 2023) by Yue-Ping Xu

AR by Aart Overeem on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2024) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Ground-based radar precipitation products typically need adjustment with rain gauge accumulations to achieve a reasonable accuracy. Crowdsourced rain gauge networks have a much higher density than conventional ones. Here, a 1-year personal weather station (PWS) gauge dataset is obtained. After quality control, the 1 h PWS gauge accumulations are merged with pan-European radar accumulations. The potential of crowdsourcing to improve radar precipitation products in (near) real time is confirmed.