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- Title
Identification of Range Overlaid Echoes Using Polarimetric Radar Measurements Based on a Fuzzy Logic Approach.
- Authors
Park, S.-G.; Kim, Ji-Hyeon; Ko, Jeong-Seok; Lee, Gyuwon
- Abstract
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of South Korea operates two S-band dual-polarimetric radars, as of 2013, to manage water resources through quantitative rainfall estimations at the surface level. However, the radar measurements suffer from range ambiguity. In this study, an algorithm based on fuzzy logic is developed to identify range overlaid echoes using seven inputs: standard deviations of differential reflectivity SD( ZDR), differential propagation phase SD( ϕDP), correlation coefficient SD( ρHV) and spectrum width SD(συ), mean of ρHV and συ, and difference of ϕDP from the system offset Δ ϕDP. An examination of the algorithm's performance shows that these echoes can be well identified and that echoes strongly affected by second trip are highlighted by high probabilities, over 0.6; echoes weakly affected have probabilities from 0.4 to 0.6; and those with low probabilities, below 0.4, are assigned as echoes without range ambiguity. A quantitative analysis of a limited number of cases using the usual skill scores shows that when the probability of 0.4 is considered as a threshold for identifying the range overlaid echoes, they can be identified with a probability of detection of 90%, a false alarm rate of 6%, and a critical success index of 84%.
- Subjects
RADAR polarimetry; ECHO; FUZZY logic; ALGORITHMS; QUANTITATIVE research; MATHEMATICAL models
- Publication
Journal of Atmospheric & Oceanic Technology, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0739-0572
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0042.1