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Activity Number: 195
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 5, 2013 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract - #309798
Title: Evaluating Radar Reflectivity Measurements as Predictors of Rainfall
Author(s): Marisa Akers*+ and Meera Venkataraman
Companies: and North Carolina State University
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To improve predictions of weather system models, it is important to have accurate measurements of precipitation at all locations. Actual amounts of rainfall have high variability across space and time, and patterns are generally unpredictable. Gauges measure rainfall, but only at specific locations. Therefore, a reliable prediction method for all locations in a given region is needed. One common method of predicting rainfall is to use measurements of reflectivity from radars. However, radar data is not directly comparable to gauge data because they measure reflectivity and actual precipitation amounts, respectively. Our main goal is to evaluate how radar reflectivity measurements can be used to predict precipitation. To address this goal, we examine zero-inflated regression models with precipitation as the response variable and radar reflectivity readings as a covariate. Additionally, spatial kriging methods utilizing zero-inflated models are explored.


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