Design of control and analisis tools from kapildui's radar data

At the end of 2005 the MCD (Meteorology and Climatology Directorate) of the Basque Country installed a Cband Dual Doppler weather Radar, Meteor 1500C, from Selex Gematronik. It is located on the top of a mountain 1000 meters height a.s.l., named Kapildui, in an inland region in the south of the Basque Country. The Basque Country has a complex topography and basins with hydrological characteristics of high flood risk. The purpose of this radar is to complement the hydrometeorological observations, the dense network of automatic weather stations (AWS) distributed along the Basque Country [1] and other meteorological information available in Internet (satellite images), and make up for the hydrometeorological demand of the Basque Meteorology Agency. In an attempt to achieve a better exploitation in the radar operation, comes up the aim of this work: the development of system monitoring tools based on the analysis of raw data. These tools are low cost tools able to integrate in the operational radar management easily, which are designed with the special attributes to be simple and to emphasize features hidden in raw data. For these purpose, we have explored information from an historical database of volumetric raw data (Z, ZDR, V, W) within a dimension of one year and a half, over a period of time between June 2006 and March 2008. The results of this study are giving rise to the development and design of new tools, which provide the identification of non meteorological signals and standards associated to this identification. Both results make possible the system monitoring and the stability in the system operation. That is a direct profit incorporated to the system management.