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Orlandini & Morlini 2000
Orlandini, S. and Morlini, I. (2000). Artificial neural network estimation of rainfall intensity from radar observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 105: doi: 10.1029/2000JD900408. issn: 0148-0227.

Volumetric scans of radar reflectivity Z and gage measurements of rainfall intensity R are used to explore the capabilities of three artificial neural networks to identify and reproduce the functional relationship between Z and R. The three networks are a multilayer perceptron, a Bayesian network, and a radial basis function network. For each of them, numerical experiments are conducted incorporating in the network inputs different descriptions of the space-time variability of Z. Space variability refers to the observations of Z along the vertical atmospheric profile, at 11 constant altitude plan position indicator levels, namely ZT=(Z1,…,Z11). Time variability refers to the observations of Z at the time intervals prior to that for which the estimate of R is provided. Space variability is evaluated by performing a principal component analysis over standardized values of Z, namely Z˜, and the first two principal components of (which describe 91% of the original variance) are used to synthesize the elements of Z into fewer orthogonal inputs for the networks. Network predictions significantly improve when the models are trained with the two principal components of with respect to the case in which only Z1 is used. Increasing the time horizon further improves the performances of the Bayesian network but is found to worsen the performances of the other two networks. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

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Exploration Geophysics, Data processing, Hydrology, Precipitation, Hydrology, Instruments and techniques, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Remote sensing
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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