Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Commercial microwave link networks for rainfall observation: Assessment of the current status and future challenges

C Chwala, H Kunstmann - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate observation of the high spatio‐temporal variability of rainfall is crucial for
hydrometeorological applications. However, the existing observations from rain gauges and …

Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): Innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

F Tauro, J Selker, N Van De Giesen… - Hydrological sciences …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

Opportunistic remote sensing of rainfall using microwave links from cellular communication networks

R Uijlenhoet, A Overeem… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave backhaul links from cellular communication networks provide a valuable
“opportunistic” source of high‐resolution space–time rainfall information, complementing …

High-resolution rainfall maps from commercial microwave links for a data-scarce region in West Africa

M Djibo, C Chwala, M Graf, J Polz… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We present high-resolution rainfall maps from commercial microwave link (CML) data in the
city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Rainfall was quantified based on data from 100 CMLs …

Rainfall estimation accuracy of a nationwide instantaneously sampling commercial microwave link network: Error dependency on known characteristics

LW De Vos, A Overeem, H Leijnse… - … of atmospheric and …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Commercial microwave links are installed and maintained for the purpose of
telecommunication. Hydrometeors between transmitting and receiving antennas cause the …

The MSG technique: Improving commercial microwave link rainfall intensity by using rain area detection from Meteosat Second Generation

KK Kumah, JCB Hoedjes, N David, BHP Maathuis… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Commercial microwave link (MWL) used by mobile telecom operators for data transmission
can provide hydro-meteorologically valid rainfall estimates according to studies in the past …

[HTML][HTML] Improved rain event detection in commercial microwave link time series via combination with MSG SEVIRI data

M Graf, A Wagner, J Polz, L Lliso… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - amt.copernicus.org
The most reliable areal precipitation estimation is usually generated via combinations of
different measurements. Path-averaged rainfall rates can be derived from commercial …

Combining MWL and MSG SEVIRI satellite signals for rainfall detection and estimation

KK Kumah, JCB Hoedjes, N David, BHP Maathuis… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate rainfall detection and estimation are essential for many research and operational
applications. Traditional rainfall detection and estimation techniques have achieved …

Measuring rainfall using microwave links: the influence of temporal sampling

LD Van Der Valk, M Coenders-Gerrits… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - amt.copernicus.org
Terrestrial microwave links are increasingly being used to estimate path-averaged
precipitation by determining the attenuation caused by rainfall along the link path, mostly …