Evaluation of MRMS Snowfall Products over the Western United States

Wen, Y.; Kirstetter, P.; Gourley, J. J.; Hong, Y.; Behrangi, A.; Flamig, Z.

doi:10.1175/jhm-d-16-0266.1

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Evaluation of MRMS Snowfall Products over the Western United States

2017
By Wen, Y. ; Kirstetter, P. ; Gourley, J. J. ; ...
Source: Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(6), 1707-1713

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Snow is important to water resources and is of critical importance to society. Ground-weather-radar-based snowfall observations have been highly desirable for large-scale weather monitoring and water resources applications. This study conducts an evaluation of the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) quantitative estimates of snow rate using the Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) daily snow water equivalent (SWE) datasets. A detectability evaluation shows that MRMS is limited in detecting very light snow (daily snow accumulation <5 mm) because of the quality control module in MRMS filtering out weak signals (<5 dBZ). For daily snow accumulation greater than 10 mm, MRMS has good detectability. The quantitative comparisons reveal a bias of −77.37% between MRMS and SNOTEL. A majority of the underestimation bias occurs in relatively warm conditions with surface temperatures ranging from −10° to 0°C. A constant reflectivity–SWE intensity relationship does not capture the snow mass flux increase associated with denser snow particles at these relatively warm temperatures. There is no clear dependence of the bias on radar beam height. The findings in this study indicate that further improvement in radar snowfall products might occur by deriving appropriate reflectivity–SWE relationships considering the degree of riming and snowflake size.
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Ice Precipitation Remote Sensing Snow
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Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(6), 1707-1713
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