International Conference on Opportunistic Sensing of Precipitation - OpenSense

Session

Oral session #2

Jun 25, 2025, 4:30 PM

Conveners

Oral session #2: Bridging the gap

• Remko Uijlenhoet (TU Delft)

41. Commercial Microwave Links for Precipitation Monitoring: The Experience of Arpae-SIMC in Emilia-Romagna

Mr Elia Covi (Arpae-SIMC, Bologna (IT))

6/25/25, 4:30 PM

Bridging the gap

Oral

Commercial Microwave Links (CML) offer advantageous properties compared to conventional sensors: they provide greater spatial representativeness than individual rain gauges and are positioned closer to the ground than the atmospheric volumes observed by weather radars. Moreover, CMLs are monitored in real time, and a well-designed opportunistic dataset can achieve latencies of less than 15...

46. Potential applications of opportunistic sensing data in operational precipitation products at Deutscher Wetterdienst – from first steps to visions

Dr Tanja Winterrath (Deutscher Wetterdienst)

6/25/25, 4:45 PM

Bridging the gap

Oral

High-quality precipitation analyses represent key operational products of national meteorological services that serve several applications spanning from weather prediction, flood forecasting, and drought monitoring to disaster management and climate change studies. In Germany, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) plays a major role in providing regional to global scale quantitative precipitation...