HYDREX

"Advancing small-scale hydro-meteorological predictions through mobile X-band dual-polarization radar systems: methods, algorithms and applications"

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA    more  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Frank S. Cognome: Marzano Email: send email Telefono: 390645000000 Fax: 39064742647
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	173˙258 €
EC contributo	173˙258 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-05-01   -   2012-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Frank S. Cognome: Marzano Email: send email Telefono: 390645000000 Fax: 39064742647	IT (ROMA)	coordinator	173˙258.84

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Our understanding and ability to predict and respond to changes in the hydrologic environment cannot be properly addressed in the absence of reliable precipitation information. Proposed research aims at investigating ways to improve the quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) associated with hydrological forecasting. Our research is facilitated by multi-instrument observations available from field campaigns in North Italy and Athens associated with complex terrain and urban environment. The scientific merit of this proposal is the synergistic use of rainfall observations from the multiple sensors available from the field experiment, which will uniquely support investigations on rainfall and precipitation classification estimation from X-band dual-polarization radar observations. The research questions to be addressed are: What is the dependence of X-band dual polarization rainfall estimation on scale and radar range? What is the relative accuracy of X-band polarimetric rain estimates to standard lower frequency (C-band) operational radar systems? How do improvements in rain estimation by X-band propagate in flood simulations and what is the dependence on scale, basin size and the complexity of the hydrological model used in the rainfall-runoff transformation? Our research questions are consistent with some of the European Research Area (ERA) priorities on QPE. X-band radar could be an economically affordable solution to the problem of filling up critical gaps in current operational radar networks. Furthermore, this project is aligned to the ERA's area of interest on “sensors and sensor networks.” X-band dual-polarization radar could be an attractive sensor for use in planed hydro-meteorologic observatories for flash flood applications.'