Satellites play a major role in the determination of the rainfall at sea. Researchers at Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) have been involved in two projects addressing this task. First they have been instrumental in developing techniques to retrieve rain rate information from the 10+ years of dual-frequency altimeter data. The TOPEX radar measures rainfall via the attenuation it causes, pr...

The water storage capacity of a green roof generates several benefits for the building conterminous environment. hydrologic performance is conventionally expressed by runoff coefficient, according to international standards and guidelines. coefficient dimensionless number defines retention over long period. At scale single rain events, characterized varying intensity duration, reaction scarcely...

This study presents an analysis of 195 rainfall events gathered with the X-band weather radar SOLIDAR and a tipping bucket rain gauge network near Delft, The Netherlands, between May 1993 and April 1994. The aim of this paper is to present a thorough analysis of a climatological dataset using a high spatial (120 m) and temporal (16 s) resolution X-band radar. This makes it a study of the potent...

As the planet warms, climate models predict that rain will become heavier but less frequent, and that the circulation will weaken. Here, two heuristic models relating moisture, vertical velocity, and rainfall distributions are developed, one in which the distribution of vertical velocity is prescribed and another in which it is predicted. These models are used to explore the response to warming...

As the planet warms, climate models predict that rain will become heavier but less frequent, and that the circulation will weaken. Here, two heuristic models relating moisture, vertical velocity, and rainfall distributions are developed, one in which the distribution of vertical velocity is prescribed and another in which it is predicted. These models are used to explore the response to warming...

Analysis of extreme hydrometeorological events is important for characterizing and better understanding the meteorological conditions that can generate severe rainstorms and the consequent catastrophic flooding. According to several studies (e.g., Alpert et al., 2004; Wittenberg et al., 2007), the occurrence of such extreme events is increasing over the eastern Mediterranean although total rain...

Gridding of daily precipitation data alleviates many of the limitations of data that are derived from point observations, such as problems associated with missing data and the lack of spatial coverage. As a result, gridded precipitation data can be valuable for applied climatological research and monitoring, but they too have limitations. To understand the limitations of gridded data more fully...