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<strong>Product</strong>s <strong>Validation</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, 30 May 2010 - <strong>PVR</strong>-03 (<strong>Product</strong> <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3) Page 4<br />

List of Tables<br />

Table 01 - List of H-<strong>SAF</strong> products 08<br />

Table 02 - <strong>Validation</strong> Team for precipitation products 11<br />

Table 03 - List of ground data used for precipitation products validation in Belgium 18<br />

Table 04 - Precipitation data available at BfG 22<br />

Table 05 - Location of the 16 meteorological radar of the DWD 22<br />

Table 06 - Characteristics of the three meteorological Doppler radars in Hungary 24<br />

Table 07 - Accuracy requirements for product <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 [RMSE (%)] 39<br />

Table 08 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Belgium by IMR 40<br />

Table 09 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Germany by BfG 42<br />

Table 10 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Hungary by OMSZ 45<br />

Table 11 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Italy by UniFe 48<br />

Table 12 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Poland by IMWM 50<br />

Table 13 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Slovakia by SHMÚ 51<br />

Table 14 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Turkey by ITU and TSMS over inner 55<br />

land<br />

Table 15 - Summary results of <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 validation in Turkey by ITU and TSMS over coastal 55<br />

zones<br />

Table 16 - Comparative results of validation in several Countries/Teams split by season 58<br />

Table 17 - Simplified compliance analysis for product <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3 59<br />

Table 18 - Synthesis of all validation results, including yearly average 60<br />

List of Figures<br />

Fig. 01 - Conceptual scheme of the EUMETSAT application ground segment 08<br />

Fig. 02 - Current composition of the EUMETSAT <strong>SAF</strong> network (in order of establishment) 08<br />

Fig. 03 - The H-<strong>SAF</strong> required coverage in the Meteosat projection 09<br />

Fig. 04 - Flow chart of the LEO/MW-GEO/IR-blending precipitation rate processing chain 09<br />

Fig. 05 - Structure of the Precipitation products validation team 11<br />

Fig. 06 - The network of 4100 rain gauges used for H-<strong>SAF</strong> precipitation products validation 12<br />

Fig. 07 - The network of 40 C-band radar used for H-<strong>SAF</strong> precipitation products validation 13<br />

Fig. 08 - Classes and sub-classes for evaluating Precipitation Rate products. Applicable to <strong>PR</strong>- 15<br />

<strong>OBS</strong>-1, <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-2, <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-3, <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-4 and <strong>PR</strong>-ASS-1 rate<br />

Fig. 09 - Classes and sub-classes for evaluating Accumulated Precipitation products. Applicable 16<br />

to <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-5 and <strong>PR</strong>-ASS-1 accumulated<br />

Fig. 10 - Meteorological radar in Belgium 18<br />

Fig. 11 - RMI raingauges: daily ( ) and AWS ( ) 19<br />

Fig. 12 - SETHY AWS network in Walloon Region 19<br />

Fig. 13 - Left: Gaussian filter; right: sketch of the up-scaling procedure. The circle corresponds to 20<br />

the range of the weather radar. The square in the middle is a common area such that it is<br />

entirely included in the selected <strong>PR</strong>-<strong>OBS</strong>-2 files. The grey rectangle, the tilted dark grey<br />

rectangle and the black ellipse are explained in the text<br />

Fig. 14 - Left panel: radar coverage in Germany as of 01/03/2007. Right panel: location of 23<br />

ombrometers for online calibration in RADOLAN; squares: hourly data provision<br />

(about 500), circles: event-based hourly data provision (about 800 stations): red: AMDA<br />

III, blue: aggregational network federal states (Bartels et al., 2004)<br />

Fig. 15 - Flowchart of online calibration RADOLAN (adapted from Bartels et al. 2004) 23<br />

Fig. 16 - The automatic rain gauge network in Hungary 24<br />

Fig. 17 - Location and coverage of the three meteorological Doppler radars in Hungary 24<br />

Fig. 18 - Map of SHMÚ raingauge stations: green – operational (98) , blue – climatological 31<br />

(586), red - hydrological stations in H-<strong>SAF</strong> selected test basins (37). White points show

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