Automated short range forecasts
SCAN (0-3 h) (Kixmiller, Lilly and Vibert, http://205.156.54.206/tdl/radar/03h_doc.htm)
- statistical relationships between the occurrence of rainfall of various thresholds
- radar reflectivity
- satellite cloud-top temperatures
- lightning strike rates
- real-time extrapolation forecasts to produce probabilistic forecasts of rainfall.
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