Presentation to the Inter-Agency Committee for Hydrological Uses of Radar Data, University of Bristol, 5 August 2004 C.G.Collier University of Salford
Combining and comparing rainfall observing systems in hydrological modelling of a rural catchment G.L.Robbins 1, M.Grum 2 and C.G.Collier 1 1 Univ. Salford 2 PH-Consult, Denmark
Rainfall measurements relative strengths.
A simple model which, one step ahead, predicts the rainfall intensity to be a weighting of its immediate own current value with its neighbours
Schematic of a simple catchment model
Croal catchment and hydrometeorological network
Rainfall, observed river flow and forecast hydrographs after various time steps 13 September 2001
Error in peak flow magnitude and time of occurrence of peak flow
Assimilation of Doppler radial winds into a high resolution NWP model F.A.Rihan 1, C.G.Collier 1, S.P.Ballard 2 and S.J.Swarbrick 2 1 University of Salford 2 JCMM, Met Office
Impact of a strong velocity gradient across the pulse volume and instrumental noise on the Doppler wind spectrum
Schematic representation showing a convergence line moving from left to right. Gaussian noise represents the measurement error
Chilbolton (300m & 4 km res.) and 1 km NWP model radial winds 1 July Model at two elevations
Model radial winds at 4 km resoln.
Next steps Met Office to complete 3D-var (later 4D- Var) assimilation system Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)