Hourly Digital Rainfall Array

A non-graphical, digital data stream of rainfall amounts during the past hour.

Features:

A gridded array of rainfall during the past hour

Generated in precipitation mode only

An hourly running precipitation estimate

100 data levels from -18 to +32 dBA in increments of 0.5 dBA

230km effective range of the radar scan

4km x 4km data resolution

Benefits:

Finer resolution data for hydrologic model input

Input to climatology databases

Key Beneficiaries:

Hydrologists

Climatologists

Applications:

Modeling

Database development