Shacham radar data for 41 heavy precipitation events in the eastern Mediterranean

This dataset includes two Matlab files:

(a) "shachamCoordinates.mat"

Which is a 527X527 matrix of x and y coordinates (Israeli Transverse Mercator) for the radar data.

(b) "radarRainV2.zip"

Which contains 41 *.mat files of the 41 heavy precipitation events analyzed (detailed in Armon et al., 2020).

Each of the files consists of four fields:

(1) "time" - 1D vector of Matlab time stamps.

(2) "r" - 2D matrix of rain rate data [mm/h]

(3) "rain" - 2D matrix of total rainfall for the event.

(4) "pix2reallyUse" - pixels of acceptable data quality.

Shacham radar data were provided by the EMS-Mekorot projects (http://www.emsmekorotprojects.com).

Data were corrected and calibrated by Dr. Francesco Marra, as detailed in Marra and Morin (2015).

References:

Armon, M., Marra, F., Enzel, Y., Rostkier-Edelstein, D., & Morin, E. (2020). Radar-based characterisation of heavy precipitation in the eastern Mediterranean and its representation in a convection-permitting model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1227–1249. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1227-2020

Marra, F., & Morin, E. (2015). Use of radar QPE for the derivation of Intensity–Duration–Frequency curves in a range of climatic regimes. Journal of Hydrology, 531, 427–440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.064