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Paulson, K.S. (2004). Fractal interpolation of rain rate time series. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2004JD004717. issn: 0148-0227. |
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Meteorological radar databases exist providing rain rate maps over areas with a sampling period of 2--15 min. Such two-dimensional, rain rate map time series would have wide application in the simulation of rain scatter and attenuation of millimeter-wave radio networks, if the sampling period were considerably shorter, i.e., of the order of 10 s or less. However, scanning a large radar at this rate is physically infeasible. This paper investigates a stochastic numerical method to interpolate point rain rate time series to shorter sampling periods while conserving the expected first- and second-order statistics. The proposed method should generally be applicable to the temporal interpolation of radar-derived rain rate maps. The method is based on the experimentally measured simple-scaling properties of log rain rate time series. It is tested against 9 gauge years of rapid response drop-counting rain gauge data, with a 10 s integration time, collected in the southern UK. The data are subsampled to yield time series with a 10 s rain rate measurement every 320, 640, and 1280 s. The subsampled time series are then interpolated back to a 10 s sample interval, and the first- and second-order statistics are compared with the original time series. |
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Keywords
Hydrology, Precipitation, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling, Mathematical Geophysics, Fractals and multifractals, rain, fractal, interpolation |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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