A REVIEW OF OPERATIONAL WEATHER RADAR NETWORKING IN GERMANY - PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS -

摘要

Beginning in the 1980s the German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) installed a network of modern weather radar systems in entire Germany during the last decade to receive area covering radar data of precipitation as well as wind information in a high spatial and temporal resolution for reducing the data gap between ground-based in-situ observations and satellite information. This radar data is an important part of the operational data collection network for climatological purposes and for weather surveillance and nowcasting.