Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data and Its Impact on Prediction of a Heavy Meiyu Frontal Rainfall Event

Figure 5

Time-distance cross sections along line EF direction (shown in Figure 3(a)) of hourly rainfall averaged along line FH direction (Figure 3(a)) in the rainfall belt from 0000 UTC 4 July to 0000 UTC 5 July 2014: observations (a) and simulations in (b) CON, (c) RAD, and (d) RADC (unit: mm/hr). The red solid box represents temporal evolution of rainfall over the key rainstorm area (red box in Figure 3(a)). The horizontal axis is the distance from line EF (Figure 3(a)) (unit: 10 km). The vertical axis is the forecast hours.

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