Assessment of spill flow emissions on the basis of measured precipitation and waste water data

Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are substantial contributors to the total emissions into surface water bodies. The emitted pollution results from dry-weather waste water loads, surface runoff pollution and from the remobilisation of sewer deposits and sewer slime during storm events. One possibility to estimate overflow loads is a calculation with load quantification models. Input data for these models are pollution concentrations, e.g. Total Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD_tot), Total Suspended Solids (TSS) or Soluble Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD_sol), rainfall series and flow measurements for model calibration and validation. It is important for the result of overflow loads to model with reliable input data, otherwise this inevitably leads to bad results. In this paper the correction of precipitation measurements and the sewer online-measurements are presented to satisfy the load quantification model requirements already described. The main focus is on tipping bucket gauge measurements and their corrections. The results evidence the importance of their corrections due the effects on load quantification modelling and show the difference between corrected and not corrected data of storm events with high rain intensities.     

雷达雨量计资料用于径流模拟(英)

利用测雨雷达结合稠密和稀疏雨量站网估计流域降水分布,将小同方法获得的降水分布输入降水径流模型TOPMODEL,模拟1998,1999夏季GAME/HUBEX试验区梅山和鲇鱼山集水区的径流,并与实测径流进行比较和分析,结果表明:1)雷达结合集水区内雨量计网模拟径流的精度优于传统的用稠密雨量计网模拟径流的精度;2)利用雷达结合集水区外相对稀疏的雨量计网模拟径流的精度和用集水区内稠密雨量计网模拟径流的精度相当,显示了测雨雷达在径流模拟和洪水预报中极大的应用潜力。     

C波段双偏振多普勒天气雷达资料分析及在定量估计降水中的应用研究

基于南京信息工程大学C波段双线偏振多普勒天气雷达(NUIST-CDP)的观测资料,结合南京龙王山SA天气雷达数据、南京信息工程大学大气综合观测基地的OTT Parsivel雨滴谱仪数据、南京市地面雨量计数据,分析NUIST-CDP探测资料的质量及定量降水估计(QPE)精度情况。将NUIST-CDP与SA雷达的回波强度数据进行了对比,发现NUIST-CDP回波强度偏弱;将滴谱仪上方NUIST-CDP测量的反射率因子Z_H、差分反射率因子Z_DR与滴谱仪数据对比,雷达参量Z_H、Z_DR与滴谱仪数据变化趋势一致,但整体略偏小;比较差分传播相移率K_DP与Z_H的变化情况,由差分传播相移Φ_DP经最小二乘法计算得到的K_DP与Z_H数据一致性很好。利用南京地区2015年夏季(5—8月)收集的滴谱数据计算偏振雷达参数,拟合测雨方程,进行两次降水过程个例的QPE分析,并与南京地区雨量计数据进行了对比。结果表明:R(K_DP)测雨精度最高,R(K_DP,Z_DR)次之,使用偏振参量能明显提高降雨估算精度;R(Z_H)、R(Z_H,Z_DR)方法测雨反演结果低于地面雨量计雨量值,且低于SA雷达反演结果。      

太行山地形影响下的极端短时强降水分析

2015年8月2日午夜和2011年8月9日前半夜,在两种不同天气系统背景下太行山东麓都出现了小时雨量超过50 mm的极端短时强降水天气,两次过程都是雷暴先在太行山区触发加强,经过下山2 h先后在丘陵站平山和山前平原站石家庄市区产生极端短时强降水。利用常规探测资料、地面加密观测资料、石家庄SA多普勒天气雷达资料,对不同天气系统背景下太行山特殊地形影响的极端短时强降水成因进行分析。结果表明:偏东气流被南北向的太行山地形强迫抬升,且与下山雷暴出流形成中尺度辐合线触发新的雷暴,雷达回波呈现后向传播特征和列车效应造成局地极端短时强降水。太行山地形通过增强辐合上升运动、增大垂直风切变使雷暴下山加强。不同天气系统强迫下,太行山特殊地形对雷暴发展作用不同。在偏西气流引导下,暖区极端短时强降水由阵风锋触发,具有突发性、降水时间短、伴随风力大的特点,下山雷暴出流加快且与山前偏东风的辐合加强,陆续在丘陵区和山前平原触发对流与下山雷暴合并加强造成极端短时强降水;而在东北气流引导下,回流冷锋和阵风锋共同触发的极端短时强降水具有持续时间较长、降雨总量较大、伴随风力较小的特点,太行山东坡对东北冷湿回流有阻挡积聚作用,东北偏北来的雷暴出流边界西端在迎风坡上强迫抬升使雷暴触发并加强,东北气流遇山后发生气旋性偏转使雷暴出流转向东南下山,与平原的偏东风辐合加强,造成丘陵区和山前平原的总降雨时间更长、降雨总量更大。     

漂移克里金方法在雷达和雨量计联合估测降水中的应用

文中介绍了一种新的融合雷达和雨量计数据开展定量估测降水研究的空间信息统计学方法-Kriging with externaldrift(KED)方法.该方法能很好地融合高精度、低时空分辨率的雨量计数据和低精度、高时空分辨率的雷达数据进行插值.通过变异函数描述降水场的空间结构信息,能够充分利用数据间的空间相关性,来改进估测精度和提高处理速度.利用其优良的数学特性,以期在定量估测降水业务研究上进行新的探索和尝试.选用湖南省有代表意义的3次降水过程资料,通过雷达直接估测降水(RAD)、变分校准(VAR)以及KED3种方法,分别与雨量计测量值进行对比分析,选用代表站进行交叉验证结果均表明:RAD的均方差、绝对误差、相对误差最大,VAR次之,而KED最小.KED估测的结果与雨量计测量降水最为接近,估测效果最好;3种方法与雨量计实测值计算一定范围的误差频率,KED估测值具有最小的均方差和最小的标准差,且误差分布相对集中在0值附近,斜度和峰度最佳,试验证明该方法不仅能提高降水估测精度,且优于其他方法,VAR均方差次之,RAD均方差效果相对较差.联合雷达、雨量计估测降水的实质是把雷达估测值与雨量计测量的结果相融合,以雨量计来校准雷达估测值,保留了雷达探测剑降水的中、小尺度精细特征.校准后的雨量场数值接近雨量计测值,而且能够准确反映雷达测得的降水分布形式.     

淮河下游初夏小时内降水分级与雷达信息特征

利用淮河下游盐城市多普勒天气雷达和雷达扫描范围内建湖县降水量资料,对2008年6月的6次小时内三等级降水过程进行环流背景和局地雷达信息特征分析,其中对不同等级降水又给出夜雨及午后雨降水日变化分类。在环流背景基础上,通过综合分析对应各级各类降水的多普勒天气雷达降水回波的滤波强度分布特征,以及相应时空的雷达径向风场沿体扫倾斜面的分布结构,归纳出小时内降水量级的动力信息特征。在两类主导性天气尺度环流背景下,局地雷达要素空间分布特征为：同等量级降水,夜间的平均回波强度明显弱于白天;上游补充回波范围指示降水连续性质;上游长而强的回波带支持下一小时短时强降水;沿经建湖的局地雷达倾斜体扫半径剖面, 径向风的风向风速辐合中心的高度越低,辐合层次越宽厚,对应的降水级别越大;在同等降雨量级中,沿倾斜的体扫半径的局地风速强切变,通过上下动量传递和水汽混合,维持着更强的降水。     

基于漂移克里金融合雷达、雨量计定量估测降水研究

文中介绍了一种新的融合雷达和雨量计数据开展定量估测降水研究的空间信息统计学方法—Kriging with external drift(KED)方法。该方法能很好地融合高精度、低时空分辨率的雨量计数据和低精度、高时空分辨率的雷达数据进行插值。通过变异函数描述降水场的空间结构信息,能够充分利用数据间的空间相关性,来改进估测精度和提高处理速度。利用其优良的数学特性,以期在定量估测降水业务研究上进行新的探索和尝试。选用湖南省有代表意义的3次降水过程资料,通过雷达直接估测降水（RAD）、变分校准（VAR）以及KED 3种方法,分别与雨量计测量值进行对比分析,选用代表站进行交叉验证结果均表明：RAD的均方差、绝对误差、相对误差最大,VAR次之,而KED最小。KED估测的结果与雨量计测量降水最为接近,估测效果最好;3种方法与雨量计实测值计算一定范围的误差频率,KED估测值具有最小的均方差和最小的标准差,且误差分布相对集中在0值附近,斜度和峰度最佳,试验证明该方法不仅能提高降水估测精度,且优于其他方法,VAR均方差次之,RAD均方差效果相对较差。联合雷达、雨量计估测降水的实质是把雷达估测值与雨量计测量的结果相融合,以雨量计来校准雷达估测值,保留了雷达探测到降水的中、小尺度精细特征。校准后的雨量场数值接近雨量计测值,而且能够准确反映雷达测得的降水分布形式。     

Predictability of a large-scale flow conducive to extreme precipitation over the western Alps

Summary The quality of numerical weather prediction has improved considerably since its beginning. Over the last decade, in the North Hemisphere and more specifically over Europe, the accuracy of global numerical weather predictions of 500 hPa height has increased by one day. However this remarkable achievement has to be considered true for average conditions since it is computed over many days/seasons with very different flow patterns and atmospheric states. It is known that atmospheric predictability and model errors are highly flow-dependent therefore an increase in skill for average conditions may not imply the same improvements in specific conditions. Moreover the potential value of numerical weather prediction is perceived to be higher in some specific conditions, like high-impact weather events. There is therefore a growing need to know the forecasting accuracy of significant weather events, something that cannot be easily inferred through average scores, not least because of the rarity of these events. For these reasons, a study has been carried out to examine the skill of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) global forecasting system in predicting a specific flow configuration that is believed to be associated with extreme precipitation events over the Alpine region. Despite quantitative predictions of extreme precipitations is still challenging, it was found that the large-scale flow conducive to major rain events has better predictive skill than average conditions. This is perhaps surprising since it is a common perception to associate severe weather with low predictability.     

雷达与雨量计联合估测降水的相关性分析

在对比分析质量控制前后雷达估测降水量与自动雨量计降水量之间相关性的基础上,采用雷达-雨量计联合校准方法,对14种不同密度雨量计校准雷达估测降水的效果进行分析。结果表明:在使用雷达资料和雨量计资料前有必要对资料的质量进行分析与控制。联合雨量计校准雷达能明显提高雷达对降水的估测能力;采用不同密度雨量计校准雷达,随着校准雨量计密度的加大,雷达估测降水的精度不断提高并趋于稳定。校准雷达的效果及所需雨量计密度与降水类型有关,当校准效果相同时,积云强降水过程需要的雨量计密度最大,积混对流性降水过程次之,层云稳定性降水过程需要的雨量计密度最小。不同方法的校准效果不同,卡尔曼滤波方法适合于对稳定性降水的校准,或在雨量计密度低的地区对雷达进行校准;变分校准法和最优插值法的校准效果相当,适合对积混对流性降水的校准,或在雨量计密度高的地区对雷达进行校准。     

高炮方位标注专利技术的应用

对2007年8月7日发生在太原的突发性暴雨过程,从天气形势、探空资料、多普勒雷达产品等方面进行了分析,结果表明：a）前倾槽、300hPa急流、副高边缘暖湿气流活跃是产生暴雨天气的有利背景。b）探空资料分析表明,中低层暖湿平流、高空干冷平流的存在使得大气层结不稳定趋于增大,是造成此次暴雨的直接原因。c）低层暖平流加辐合和高层辐散叠加的多普勒雷达速度场对大范围强降水发展、维持、消散具有很好的预报指示作用;逆风区、中尺度切变线、辐合线在强降水临近预报中有明确的指示意义。d）雷达风廓线产品分析表明,低空急流在夜间产生并加强,使降水夜间加强并导致大暴雨的发生。     

利用雷达回波与GIS技术反演面雨量研究

自动气象站可以直接测量单点或较小范围的降水量,测量精度较高,但自动气象站的分布密度不够,往往漏掉强降水、暴雨中心。雷达能实时探测云和降水结构及系统发生、发展演变情况,能迅速提供一定区域的实时降水情况,但雷达测量误差较大,测定局地降水量精度不高,因此,将自动气象站与雷达进行点面结合,采用一定的数学方法和GIS技术,可以得到能够代表某特定区域平均降水情况的面雨量。以深圳市行政区域面雨量反演为例,建立区域内所有测站的6 min累积降雨资料与雷达回波数据之间的回归关系,借助GIS技术和包括对经度、纬度、海拔高度3个因子的地理订正,构建雷达图上特定行政区域的面雨量计算模型,并对格点拟合雨量进行空间分辨率的精细化反演,得到雷达图上的特定行政区域的面雨量图。     

Experimental results on rainfall estimation in complex terrain with a mobile X-band polarimetric weather radar

In this work the capability of reliable rainfall measurements with small weather radars in complex terrain for flood forecasting purposes is examined. Rain measurements were carried out during winter–spring 2007 with a mobile X-band dual-polarization radar in the northwestern mountainous part of the island of Crete in Greece. In this area a 2D-video disdrometer and a network of raingauges was installed for radar calibration and evaluation of rainfall measurements, respectively. The complex terrain of the experimental site may significantly reduce the performance of rain measurements due to ground clutter and partial or total beam blockage. A beam blockage algorithm using high resolution terrain data was applied in order to find areas with significant terrain effects and estimate correction of the radar measurements. Rain attenuation correction was based on modern sophisticated algorithms using differential phase measurements. The accuracy of rainfall estimation from standard or polarimetric algorithms at plan position indicator (PPI) scans was examined for high-temporal resolution (1 min) rainfall rates and accumulated rainfall values for winter and spring time rain events. For high elevation measurements, which were required in order to avoid terrain effects in large areas of interest, a correction for the vertical-profile-of-reflectivity (VPR) was also applied to the radar data. An average VPR model used in the corresponding correction of reflectivity was constructed based on range–height indicator (RHI) scans. It was concluded that quantitative high resolution X-band radar observations of rainfall in complex terrain is possible after careful application of all the above processing steps.     

2012年4—10月我国主要暴雨天气过程简述

利用中国大陆2 400多站日降水资料和常规探空资料,以1981—2010年30 a平均降水量为气候态,统计2020年4—10月我国主要暴雨天气过程,概述各主要暴雨过程的降水分布和天气形势特征。结果表明：2020年4—10月我国共出现188个暴雨日、41次主要暴雨过程。2020年5—9月,月平均降水较常年同期平均值明显偏多,6—7月,长江中下游和江淮地区出现超强梅雨,月累计降水量较常年同期基本偏多5成以上,部分地区偏多2倍以上。2020年4—10月我国共出现28站次特大暴雨。8月四川强降水频发,引发内涝和山体滑坡等次生灾害。年内最大日降水量423.2 mm出现在8月10日的四川芦山。6月7—10日,广东龙门出现年内最大过程降水量667.9 mm。2020年共有8个台风影响我国,其中5个台风在我国登陆。台风整体偏弱,但8月下旬至9月上旬,东北地区连续遭受3个台风袭击。

     

STUDY ON APPLICATIONS OF C-BAND DUAL LINEAR POLARIZATION RADAR IN METEOROLOGY*

Theoretical study and development of a dual linear polarization weather radar in China are briefly presented.Also discussed are the potential uses of the new radar system in improving the accuracy of areal rainfall measurements and analysing the spacial structure of storms and distribution of hydrometecrs in clouds based on the radar observational data from the field experimcnts during the summers of 1987-1989.The results indicate that a C-band dual polarization weather radar,after considering the microwave attenuation correction,may be employed to quantitatively measure rainfall and to monitor heavy rain and flood events and becomes an imporrant means to study storm structure.     

A radar-based verification of precipitation forecast for local convective storms

Local flash flood storms with a rapid hydrological response are a real challenge for quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF). It is relevant to assess space domains, to which the QPF approaches are applicable. In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the forecasting capability of a high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) model by means of area-related QPF verification. The results presented concern two local convective events, which occurred in the Czech Republic (CR) on 13 and 15 July 2002 and caused local flash floods. We used the LM COSMO model (Lokall Model of the COSMO consortium) adapted to the horizontal resolution of 2.8 km over a model domain covering the CR. The 18 h forecast of convective precipitation was verified by using radar rainfall totals adjusted to the measured rain gauge data. The grid point-related root mean square error (RMSE) value was calculated over a square around the grid point under the assumption that rainfall values were randomly distributed within the square. The forecast accuracy was characterized by the mean RMSE over the whole verification domain. We attempt to show a dependence of both the RMSE field and the mean RMSE on the square size. The importance of a suitable merger between the radar and rain gauge datasets is demonstrated by a comparison between the verification results obtained with and without the gauge adjustment. The application of verification procedure demonstrates uncertainties in the precipitation forecasts. The model was integrated with initial conditions shifted by 0.5° distances. The four verifications, corresponding to the shifts in the four directions, show differences in the resulting QPF, which depend on the size of verification area and on the direction of the shift.     

优化ZI关系及其在淮河流域面雨量测量中的应用

利用合肥新一代天气雷达2003年6—7月观测数据和地面观测的逐时雨量资料，得到分段最优化Z-I关系，在淠河灌区的水源地响洪甸流域和佛子岭流域进行降水测量。结果表明：强降水阶段流域面雨量，优化Z-I关系后得到的流域累积面雨量与雨量计比值从39％提高到73％，同时相关系数从0．78提高到0．8。528小时时间序列上佛子岭流域在优化Z-I关系之后，流域平均面雨量与雨量计的回归线斜率从0．4提高到0．72，lmm·h^-1以上流域平均面雨量累积值与雨量计累积值的比值从48．4％提高到了85．9％。可见，优化Z-I关系后雷达反演值更接近于雨量观测值，同时雷达定量估测流域面雨量的精度得到很大提高。     

Experimental calibration of a cost-effective X-band weather radar for climate ecological studies in southern Ecuador

In this paper setup, operational problems and a straightforward calibration approach for a cost-effective X-Band radar are presented. The LAWR (Local Area Weather Radar) system is based on conventional ship radar technology which is adapted to register rainfall within a range of about 60 km with a spatial resolution of 500 m per pixel. The instrument offers neither Doppler processing nor vertical scan capabilities but uses 20° wide (vertical) beam. The calibration suffers from an unfavorably distributed and very sparse rain gauge network, heavy clutter contamination of the signal and obstructions by surrounding terrain. A specific scaling approach is developed, that includes satellite data on cloud frequency and distribution, to overcome these limitations. Observed clutter is removed and missing values are replaced by bilinear interpolation of the undisturbed signals. A temporal and spatial bias of the radar signal is corrected using an omni-directional spatial distribution hypothesis. This is possible because of the location of the radar site in the transition zone between high rainfall on the eastern Andean slopes and low rainfall on the leeward side. A further limitation of the system is that the LAWR does not provide information on the measured reflectivity Z but dimensionless counts (8 bit resolution). Calibration is performed assuming a linear relation between radar output and rainfall as recommended by the systems manufacturer. The intercomparison of rain gauge and scatterometer data with calibrated radar rainfall reveals a good performance of the developed calibration approach.     

主特征提取法在天气雷达降水估测集成分析中的应用

提出使用主特征提取法对天气雷达定量估测降水的几种模式结果进行集成分析，获得降水分布的共同特征，并参照雨量计资料确定雷达探测范围内的降水强度分布，实例分析表明效果较好。     

Towards combining GPM and MFG observations to monitor near real time heavy precipitation at fine scale over India and nearby oceanic regions

This is the first attempt to merge highly accurate precipitation estimates from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) with gap free satellite observations from Meteosat to develop a regional rainfall monitoring algorithm to estimate heavy rainfall over India and nearby oceanic regions. Rainfall signature is derived from Meteosat observations and is co-located against rainfall from GPM to establish a relationship between rainfall and signature for various rainy seasons. This relationship can be used to monitor rainfall over India and nearby oceanic regions. Performance of this technique was tested by applying it to monitor heavy precipitation over India. It is reported that our algorithm is able to detect heavy rainfall. It is also reported that present algorithm overestimates rainfall areal spread as compared to rain gauge based rainfall product. This deficiency may arise from various factors including uncertainty caused by use of different sensors from different platforms (difference in viewing geometry from MFG and GPM), poor relationship between warm rain (light rain) and IR brightness temperature, and weak characterization of orographic rain from IR signature. We validated hourly rainfall estimated from the present approach with independent observations from GPM. We also validated daily rainfall from this approach with rain gauge based product from India Meteorological Department (IMD). Present technique shows a Correlation Coefficient (CC) of 0.76, a bias of −2.72 mm, a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 10.82 mm, Probability of Detection (POD) of 0.74, False Alarm Ratio (FAR) of 0.34 and a Skill score of 0.36 with daily rainfall from rain gauge based product of IMD at 0.25° resolution. However, FAR reduces to 0.24 for heavy rainfall events. Validation results with rain gauge observations reveal that present technique outperforms available satellite based rainfall estimates for monitoring heavy rainfall over Indian region.     

用变分方法校准数字化天气雷达测定区域降水量基本原理和精度

本文用变分方法校准雷达估算的降水强度和区域降水量,结果表明:经变分校准后,不但能使雷达探测到的结果与雨量计观测到的结果比较接近,而且还能保留没有雨量计站的地方雷达探测到的降水强度变化,其平均相对误差约为20％.