We have found some documentation, which links stage output to stash codes, and it looks like the rainfall values we're currently getting from the model do not include convective rainfall. They also do not include snowfall. So we should get all of the following variables as described below from MASS and combine them in the following ways.
So for rainfall rates we should get of these
rainfall_rate
rainfall_rate_from_convection
The sum is the total rainfall.
SImilarly for 3 hour accumulations, we should add these together to get total rainfall
rainfall_accumulation-PT03H
rainfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03H
Rainfall is not total precipitation, so we need to also get snowfall, both dynamic and convective
snowfall_rate
snowfall_rate_from_convection
snowfall_accumulation-PT03H
snowfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03H
So our main 2 targets should be precip rate and precip accumulation, which has 4 components summed together as our target:
precip_rate = rainfall_rate + rainfall_rate_from_convection + snowfall_rate + snowfall_from_convectionprecip_acc_3hr = rainfall_accumulation-PT03H + rainfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03H + snowfall_accumulation-PT03H + snowfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03H
We are also interested in max rainfall rates in a 3 hour period, as indicative of inputs. It might be interesting to get these for snow and rain and doing comparative processing for radar to use these as a target.
rainfall_rate_max-PT01H
rainfall_rate_max-PT03H
rainfall_rate_from_convection_max-PT03H
snowfall_rate_max-PT03H
snowfall_rate_from_convection_max-PT03H
Presumably in this case, we should take the maxiumum of the 4 values, rather than sum or average, so find the max rate for any sort of precipitation in the model, and this will correspond with the sort of precipitation.
We have found some documentation, which links stage output to stash codes, and it looks like the rainfall values we're currently getting from the model do not include convective rainfall. They also do not include snowfall. So we should get all of the following variables as described below from MASS and combine them in the following ways.
So for rainfall rates we should get of these
rainfall_raterainfall_rate_from_convectionThe sum is the total rainfall.
SImilarly for 3 hour accumulations, we should add these together to get total rainfall
rainfall_accumulation-PT03Hrainfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03HRainfall is not total precipitation, so we need to also get snowfall, both dynamic and convective
snowfall_ratesnowfall_rate_from_convectionsnowfall_accumulation-PT03Hsnowfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03HSo our main 2 targets should be precip rate and precip accumulation, which has 4 components summed together as our target:
precip_rate = rainfall_rate + rainfall_rate_from_convection + snowfall_rate + snowfall_from_convectionprecip_acc_3hr = rainfall_accumulation-PT03H + rainfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03H + snowfall_accumulation-PT03H + snowfall_accumulation_from_convection-PT03HWe are also interested in max rainfall rates in a 3 hour period, as indicative of inputs. It might be interesting to get these for snow and rain and doing comparative processing for radar to use these as a target.
rainfall_rate_max-PT01Hrainfall_rate_max-PT03Hrainfall_rate_from_convection_max-PT03Hsnowfall_rate_max-PT03Hsnowfall_rate_from_convection_max-PT03HPresumably in this case, we should take the maxiumum of the 4 values, rather than sum or average, so find the max rate for any sort of precipitation in the model, and this will correspond with the sort of precipitation.