VERTICAL PROFILES OF WEATHER RADAR REFLECTIVITY: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS FROM THE INTALIAN NETWORK FOR QUANTITAVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION

In this work an analysis of the vertical profiles of radar reflectivity (VPZ) is carried out. This topic is particular important in ground based weather radar applications to reconstruct the rain precipitation close to the terrain level. Several case studies for a total of 1584 radar volumes are collected and processed. The qualitative and quantitative analysis show that VPZ reconstruction gives some improvements even thought its strength is variable and possibly subjected to external causes other than the quality of VPZ reconstruction.