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This report gives a short overview about requirements on radar data as the base for QPF methods, focusing on requirements for the operational use of radar data, possible impacts of limitations of the radar technique on rainfall forecasting and user requirements. A review of QPF methods is given in section 3 as a description of general approaches alongside with details of particular algorithms. Section 4 gives details on how to assess the quality of rainfall forecasts and section5 compares different QPF methods mainly based on their performance during the World Weather Research Programme – Forecast Demonstration Project Sydney 2000.

This book is a result of COST Action C19 “Proactive Crisis Management of Urban Infrastructure”. The main objective of the Action is to define current knowledge gaps and identify possible measures to improve the multidisciplinary research on urban infrastructure vulnerability and the handling of crisis situations.