From Observations to Forecasts ‐ Part 13: The UK weather radar network – past, present and future

Kitchen, M.; Illingworth, Anthony J.

doi:10.1002/wea.861

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“…This product is derived from the Great Britain and Ireland radar network (Figure 1; Kitchen and Illingworth, 2011) and since mid-2005 has been operating under the data processing chain described by Harrison et al (2009). There have been some changes to the network over 2006-2013 that may affect our climatology.…”

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A radar‐based rainfall climatology of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairman

Schultz

Kirshbaum

et al. 2015

Weather

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The Met Office 1km radar‐derived precipitation‐rate composite over 8 years (2006–2013) is examined to evaluate whether it provides an accurate representation of annual‐average precipitation over Great Britain and Ireland over long periods of time. The annual‐average precipitation from the radar composite is comparable with gauge measurements, with an average error of +23mmyr−1 over Great Britain and Ireland, +29mmyr−1 (3%) over the United Kingdom and –781mmyr−1 (46%) over the Republic of Ireland. The radar‐derived precipitation composite is useful over the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, but not accurate over the Republic of Ireland, particularly in the south.

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confidence: 99%

A radar‐based rainfall climatology of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairman

Schultz

Kirshbaum

et al. 2015

Weather

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“…As a consequence, a major use is for flood forecasting where radar can detect the location, extent and evolution of convective storms that rain gauge networks rarely sample well, if at all. The UK weather radar network has only been operational since 1985, when it was launched with just four radars (Kitchen and Illingworth, 2011). Since its inception there have been many changes to radar processing that have improved the quality of rainfall estimates, and the UK network coverage has now expanded to 15 radars (Kitchen and Illingworth, 2011).…”

Section: Weather Radar Rainfall Estimatesmentioning

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CEH-GEAR: 1 km resolution daily and monthly areal rainfall estimates for the UK for hydrological and other applications

Keller

Tanguy

Prosdocimi

et al. 2015

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology -Gridded Estimates of Areal Rainfall (CEH-GEAR) data set was developed to provide reliable 1 km gridded estimates of daily and monthly rainfall for Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI) (together with approximately 3500 km 2 of catchment in the Republic of Ireland) from 1890 onwards. The data set was primarily required to support hydrological modelling.The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office collated historical weather observations for the UK which include a national database of rain gauge observations. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall (AAR), was used to generate the daily and monthly rainfall grids. To derive the monthly estimates, rainfall totals from monthly and daily (when complete month available) rain gauges were used in order to obtain maximum information from the rain gauge network. The daily grids were adjusted so that the monthly grids are fully consistent with the daily grids. The CEH-GEAR data set was developed according to the guidance provided by the British Standards Institution.The CEH-GEAR data set contains 1 km grids of daily and monthly rainfall estimates for GB and NI for the period 1890-2012. For each day and month, CEH-GEAR includes a secondary grid of distance to the nearest operational rain gauge. This may be used as an indicator of the quality of the estimates. When this distance is greater than 100 km, the estimates are not calculated due to high uncertainty.CEH-GEAR is available from doi:10.5285/5dc179dc-f692-49ba-9326-a6893a503f6e and is free of charge for commercial and non-commercial use subject to licensing terms and conditions.

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“…9 [for an introduction to the capabilities of the U.K. radar network, see Kitchen and Illingworth (2011)], showing intense rain cells in southwestern England and southern Wales (where there was flash flooding) and a cluster of cells near and to the northwest of London. Several Olympic e vent s , i nc lud i ng t he women's marathon were affected by intense convective storms across England and Wales on 5 August.…”

Section: Very High-resolution Forecasts For Weymouth Baymentioning

confidence: 99%