Weather Radar Images - Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics
Original (non-English) name
Citra Radar - BADAN METEOROLOGI KLIMATOLOGI DAN GEOFISIKA
Acronym
Weather Radar Images - BMKG
Citation
Abstract
Weather radar imagery depicts the potential rainfall intensity as detected by weather radar. Measurement of rainfall intensity (precipitation) by weather radar is based on how much radar energy emission is reflected back by the water droplets in the cloud and is represented by the Reflectivity product which has a unit dBZ (decibel). The greater the reflected energy received by the radar, the greater the dBZ value, and the greater the dBZ reflectivity value, indicating the greater the intensity of rain that occurs.
The maximum range of the Reflectivity product from the BMKG radar is about 240 km from the radar location.