Patent ID: 11156713

Abstract:
The invention relates to a meteorological technique, and more specifically relates to a method for estimating a precipitation rate, which involves measuring, by means of a bipolar radar, the differential phase and the reflectivity of a radio wave, over a travel radius interval [r0, r1] where r0 and r1 are two points of the line of sight, where r0 coincides with a 0° C. isotherm in the case of snowfall, and determining the value(s) of the adjustment parameter(s) of a model of an intercept parameter N0* in accordance with r and a condition being the value in r0 of the intercept parameter varying in accordance with the radius and the adjustment parameter(s), which minimise, in the travel radius interval [r0, r1], a deviation between the differential phase difference between r and r0 and a function of the reflectivity Z, the condition N0*(r0) and the adjustment parameter(s).