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The document discusses establishing a new empirical relationship between radar reflectivity (Z) and rainfall rate (R), called the Z-R relationship, for the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. Using daily rainfall data and an optimization technique, the authors developed a new Z-R relationship of Z=40R1.6. Validation of this relationship showed acceptable statistical error values, indicating a closeness between radar-estimated and gauge-measured rainfall amounts. The relationship can be used to assess rainfall depth from weather radar for the northern Peninsular Malaysia region.

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The document discusses establishing a new empirical relationship between radar reflectivity (Z) and rainfall rate (R), called the Z-R relationship, for the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. Using daily rainfall data and an optimization technique, the authors developed a new Z-R relationship of Z=40R1.6. Validation of this relationship showed acceptable statistical error values, indicating a closeness between radar-estimated and gauge-measured rainfall amounts. The relationship can be used to assess rainfall depth from weather radar for the northern Peninsular Malaysia region.

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The Radar-Rainfall Relationship for Northern Region of

Peninsular Malaysia
*Mahyun A. W., Abdullah R., Abustan I., Adam M. K. M., and Nur Atiqah A. A.
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Abstract—Rain gauge and weather radar is a tool to measure rainfall depth. But, weather
radar cannot measure the rainfall depth directly as oppose to rain gauge. Therefore, an
empirical relationship between reflectivity (Z) and rainfall rate (R), called the Z-R
relationship (Z=ARb), is commonly used to assess the rainfall depth using radar. Using the
optimization technique, new relationship for northern of Peninsular Malaysia was developed.
Using the daily rainfall data, calibration process has been performed by varying the value of
A and fixed the exponential b to 1.6. The calibration process done, new climatological Z-R
relationship, Z=40R1.6 indicates the closeness between radar rainfall and gauge rainfall. To
justify the new relationship, validation process has been performed using the calibrated
equation which shows the value of Mean Error, Absolute Mean Error, Root Mean Square
Error and Bias within the acceptable statistical indicators with the values of 2.65, 3.29, 3.81,
and 0.85 respectively

Index Terms—Z-R relationship, radar rainfall estimation, Alor Star Radar,


optimization.

*Responsible Author : Mahyun A. W. is with School of Environmental Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Arau, Perlis,
Malaysia (e-mail: [email protected]).

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