Abstract
Unlike actual rainfall, the spatial extent of rainfall maps is often
determined by administrative and political boundaries. Similarly, data
from commercial microwave links (CMLs) is usually acquired on national
basis and exchange among countries is limited. Up to now, this has
prohibited the generation of transboundary CML-based rainfall maps
despite the great extension of networks across the world. We present CML
based rainfall maps for the first time, using independent CML data sets
from Germany and the Czech Republic. For homogenization we apply three
increasingly effective algorithms of filtering and time series
interpolation. We show that straightforward algorithms used for
homogenisation strongly reduce anomalies in the results. Furthermore, we
find that after the homogenization and joint processing, CML-based
rainfall maps can be generated which seamlessly visualize a rainfall
event traversing the German-Czech border. This displays the potential
for large scale (e.g. continental) CML-based rainfall estimation.