%0 Generic
%A Overeem, Aart
%D 2019
%T Commercial microwave link data for rainfall monitoring
%U https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Commercial_microwave_link_data_for_rainfall_monitoring/12688253/1
%R 10.4121/uuid:323587ea-82b7-4cff-b123-c660424345e5
%K Microwave link
%K Microwave links
%K Observations
%K Rain
%K Rainfall measurement
%K Remote sensing
%K Weather
%X <p>Dataset of commercial microwave link (CML) data, which can be used to estimate path-average rainfall between telephone towers. Contains microwave frequency, end date & time of reading, minimum & maximum received power, path length, coordinates, and link identifier. For a network of on average ~2500 links covering the Netherlands having a temporal resolution of 15 min. The dataset, which consists of two files, can be used with the open-source R package RAINLINK (https://github.com/overeem11/RAINLINK) to estimate path-averaged rainfall and to make rainfall maps. Data have been used in the mentioned papers under "link to publication", but these use either a subset of the dataset or also other data. <br><br>Be aware that part of the CML dataset has an erroneous time stamp. It only concerns the data from the year 2012 in file "CMLs_20120530_20120901.dat". The data from "CMLs_20110609_20110911_21days.dat" from the year 2011 are not affected. The time stamp from all intervals from 00:15 through 08:00 UTC is wrong. The corresponding date should be one day later, i.e., 24 hours later. This implies that 33.3% of the ~3-month dataset from 2012 has the wrong time stamp.<br><br> This has been corrected in version 2 of the dataset.</p>
%I 4TU.Centre for Research Data