Gridded rainfall maps retrieved from commercial microwave link (CML) data from Sri Lanka

  • Aart Overeem (Creator)

Dataset

Description

Gridded dataset of rainfall intensities (mm/h) covering Sri Lanka over the period 12 September 2019 through 31 December 2019. Commercial microwave link (CML) data were used to estimate path-average rainfall between telephone towers. These were interpolated to 15-min rainfall maps on a 0.02 degree grid (approximately 4 km).
Date made available5 Mar 2021
PublisherWageningen University & Research
Temporal coverage12 Sept 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
Date of data production12 Sept 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
Geographical coverageSri Lanka
Geospatial point7.8731, 80.7718Show on map

Keywords

  • commercial microwave links
  • CMLs
  • oberservation
  • rain
  • rainfall measurement
  • remote sensing
  • weather
  • opportunistic sensing
  • cellular telecommunication network
  • telephone towers

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