Abstract
The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) produces
research that helps to understand climate and weather dynamics in Brazil
and in the world, with significant impacts on national public and
private strategic planning. Among the essential information for the
studies are the rainfall data. In this context, ensuring the quality of
this data has a direct impact on the reliability of the forecasts and
analysis generated from them. Thus, this study, which is a partnership
between INPE, the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics and Polytechnic
School of USP and the ARM-DoE (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate
Research Facility), aimed to establish computational tools that could
deal with the quality of data from rain in accordance with the main
international directives. Thus, it was proposed for this study the
development of a specific toolkit for data from the Micro Rain Radar
(MRR), disdrometers PARSIVEL2 and RD80, and rain gauge that would help
researchers from INPE, USP and partners to: standardize the preparation
of raw data for internationally accepted formats; processing figures to
support quick analyses; analyze and process data quality and, finally,
record metadata and quality analysis for publication in international
data repositories.