A radar-based rainfall climatology of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairman, J. G., Schultz, D. M., Kirshbaum, D. J., Gray, S. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-362X and Barrett, A. I. (2015) A radar-based rainfall climatology of Great Britain and Ireland. Weather, 70 (5). pp. 153-158. ISSN 1477-8696 doi: 10.1002/wea.2486

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40319
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/wea.2486
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Wiley
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