The Swedish Weather Radar Production Chain The Swedish Weather Radar Production Chain Daniel Michelson Daniel Michelson Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Focus on: Focus on: Higher-order Higher-order products products Quality Quality improvements improvements Quality Quality characterization characterization
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The Swedish Weather Radar Production ChainThe Swedish Weather Radar Production Chain
Daniel MichelsonDaniel Michelson
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological InstituteSwedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Focus on:Focus on:
Higher-order productsHigher-order products
Quality improvementsQuality improvements
Quality Quality
characterizationcharacterization
Vilebo, formerly
Norrköping
SWERADSWERAD Operated jointly between SMHI Operated jointly between SMHI
and Swedish Armed Forcesand Swedish Armed Forces
12 Ericsson C-band Doppler 12 Ericsson C-band Doppler
radarsradars
Almost complete national Almost complete national
coveragecoverage
NORDRADNORDRAD
http://nordrad.net/
Finland, Sweden, NorwayFinland, Sweden, Norway
Estonia associate memberEstonia associate member
Special arrangement with Special arrangement with
DenmarkDenmark
Established in late 1980'sEstablished in late 1980's
Organized as an operational Organized as an operational
Generated using filtered compositesGenerated using filtered composites
Simplified version of the BALTRAD gauge-Simplified version of the BALTRAD gauge-
adjustment technique*adjustment technique*
1 hour, 2 km, 32 bits1 hour, 2 km, 32 bits
Uses 12-hour SYNOP gauge Uses 12-hour SYNOP gauge
accumulations at 6 and 18 UTCaccumulations at 6 and 18 UTC
*Koistinen J. and Michelson D.B., 2002: BALTEX weather radar-based precipitation products and their*Koistinen J. and Michelson D.B., 2002: BALTEX weather radar-based precipitation products and their