Validation of the Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator with Polar55C real observations

A preliminary validation of the Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator (APDWRS) with real data is described in this paper. The APDWRS is used to reproduce an observation of a severe storm event which took place on the 15th of October 2012 over the Tyrrenian coast. One PPI scan performed by the dual polarization C-band Polar 55C weather radar at 17:30 UTC is simulated using APDWRS with meteorological data from the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model as input. The validity of the simulation is then compared both in the spatial domain and statistically observing the differences in the relationships between observables in real and simulated case.

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