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...
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...
