Ensemble Hydrometeorological Forecasts Using WRF Hourly QPF and TopModel for a Middle Watershed

Figure 5

(a) Hourly ensemble QPF using different physical configurations of the WRF model over the Iguaçu watershed for April 25-26, 2010. The black line represents the observed precipitation over the watershed. PPI at 0.5° elevation of reflectivity images from S-Band Doppler radar are shown for April 25, 2010, at 0001 UTC (b), 0107 UTC (c), and 0146 UTC (d) and for April 26, 2010, at 0307 UTC (e), 0515 UTC (f), 0700 UTC (g), 1700 UTC (h), 1830 UTC (i), and 2007 UTC (j).

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