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

Figure 6

Time series of hourly average precipitation over the key rainstorm area from observations (solid line, black) and simulations of three experiments (dashed lines) (a) (unit: mm/hr). (b), (c), and (d) are the same as (a) but for the rain rates less than 5 mm/hr, greater than 5 mm/hr and less than 15 mm/hr, and greater than 15 mm/hr, respectively. The horizontal axis is forecast hours from 0000 UTC 4 July to 0000 UTC 5 July 2014.

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