Rain-Cell Identification and Modeling for Propagation Studies from Weather Radar Images

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