Commercial microwave link networks for rainfall observation: Assessment of the current status and future challenges
16 February 2019 | By Christian Chwala Harald Kunstmann | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Volume 6, Issue 2 |
The fairly new technique of rainfall estimation from large commercial microwave link (CML) networks, operated as backhaul of the cell phone network, is a possible solution for improving rainfall observations. CMLs can provide missing near ground rainfall observations in sparsely gauged regions, they can complement existing observations in regions covered by conventional monitoring networks and they can improve the space–time resolution and accuracy of rainfall products.