Data and codes underlying the publication: "CLEAR: a new discrete multiplicative random cascade model for disaggregating path-integrated rainfall estimates from commercial microwave links"

<strong>Description:</strong> This dataset contains all essential data and codes underlying the publication "CLEAR: a new discrete multiplicative random cascade model for disaggregating path-integrated rainfall estimates from commercial microwave links". Please see the README for more in-depth information about the content of each dataset and script.<br><strong>Datasets:</strong><br><strong>cml_metadata.csv:</strong> contains information about the frequency, polarization, and coordinates of CMLs.<br><strong>rainfall_field_rain_rates.zip:</strong> contains high-resolution simulated rainfall fields (210 events).<br><strong>rainfall_field_coordinates.csv: </strong>contains the coordinates of each grid cell in the simulated rainfall fields.<br><strong>virtual_rain_rates_along_CMLs.Rdata:</strong> contains the distributed and path-averaged rain rates along the CML paths.<br><strong>clearEnsemble.Rdata:</strong> contains 50 realizations of the CLEAR algorithm as well as the GMZ benchmark.<br><strong>w_table_all_events.Rdata: </strong>contains the empirical cascade weights needed to fit the standard deviation model of the cascade generator.<br><strong>Codes:</strong><br><strong>fun_CLEAR.R:</strong> Functions and helper functions for the CLEAR algorithm.<br><strong>fun_CML.R: </strong>Functions for processing CML data, also available at GitHub (https://github.com/fenclmar/Rcmlrain/tree/master)<br><strong>01_sample_estimation_empirical_weights.Rmd</strong>: R script for calculating empirical cascade weights.<br><strong>02_sample_estimation_fitting_SDmodel.Rmd</strong>: R script for fitting the cascade generator model.<br><strong>03_extract_virtual_rainfall_from_CMLs.Rmd:</strong> R script for extracting distributed and path-averaged rain rates from virtual rainfall fields.<br><strong>04_CLEAR_disaggregation.Rmd:</strong> R script for disaggregating and resampling path-averaged CML rain rates using the CLEAR and GMZ algorithms.