Characteristic Features of the Evolution of a Meiyu Frontal Rainstorm with Doppler Radar Data Assimilation

Figure 3

(a) Time series of hourly average precipitation over the key rainstorm area from observations (black solid line) and simulations (red dashed line) (unit: mm·h⁻¹); (b), (c), and (d) are the same as (a) but for the rain rates less than 5 mm·h⁻¹, greater than 5 mm·h⁻¹ and less than 15 mm·h⁻¹, and greater than 15 mm·h⁻¹, respectively. X axis indicates the forecasting time from 0100 UTC 4 July to 0000 UTC 5 July 2014.

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