Weather Radar Observations of Severe Storms

Dear Colleagues,

The technological improvements in the last few decades have supported the efforts of the scientific and operational community in facing the intrinsic issues related to the use of weather radars in a broad set of applications. In this respect, the spread of dual-polarization has enormously improved the data quality, quantitative precipitation estimation, microphysical parameters and process analysis, and discrimination of radar returns. As a result, weather radars have become an indispensable tool in the daily activities carried out by meteorological services all over the world.

Nevertheless, the delicate issue of weather, hydrogeological, and hydraulic risk management, emphasized by climate change, together with the increase in urbanization, has profound socio-economic and civil protection impacts that need to further enhance the quality and reliability of radar products. In this context, the nowcasting of precipitation and the identification of pre-convective precursors are, among others, topics requiring additional efforts for early warning purposes.

This Special Issue, while focused on the recent advancements on the analysis of severe storms, QPE, microphysical parameter estimation, processes analysis, and nowcasting, is also dedicated to data quality management, multisensors data fusion, data assimilation, radar networking, urban scale monitoring, and early warning. Recent advances on the analysis and quantification of winter storms are more than welcome.

Dr. Gianfranco Vulpiani
Guest Editor

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