Stage III Precipitation Processing
Water
The third level of precipitation processing, performed interactively at RFCs. Stage II precipitation estimates from multiple radars are mosaiced into an RFC area-wide product for use in river basin hydrologic modeling operations. RFC forecasters can review the mosaiced product, interactively edit areas of bad data, and substitute gage-only fields into portions of the mosaiced radar based product.
- — Service Hydrologist Reference Manual Glossary of Hydrologic Terms retrieved 2014-06-01