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CSU-Radarmet / CSU_RadarTools

A module of independent functions to do precipitation retrievals from polarimetric radar data
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Updates to blended rainfall algorithm #36

Closed tjlang closed 8 years ago

tjlang commented 8 years ago
  1. C/X-band formally supported by logic that doesn’t use Zdr for rainfall calculations at these frequencies. User must supply their own parameters for the rainfall equations (e.g., R-Kdp), as well as their own break points for considering Z/Kdp.
  2. User-specified parameters for rainfall calculations now formally supported through the blended rainfall function interfaces. This allows the user to specify their own e.g., R-Kdp parameters and have the blended algorithm logic take advantage of that. See the function docstrings for proper syntax.

Defaults for the blended algorithm remain the S-band-optimized parameters and logic, so the end user need to be careful to specify all relevant keywords when working at higher frequencies.