Radar Rain Cell Identification and Modeling in the North-West of Spain

This study aims to characterize and model the rain fields in the North-West of Spain from weather radar images. The study includes the modeling of these images according to two well known rain cell models: EXCELL and HYCELL. For this analysis, a procedure to detect rain fields and an algorithm for identifying rain cells within the images is presented. This work is part of an on-going activity trying to develop dynamic space-time models for rain fields for simulating rain induced effects on millimeter wave communication systems.