Dr Miguel Rico-Ramirez
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Eng, MEng, PhD(Bristol)
Lecturer in Radar Hydrology and Hydroinformatics Water Resources, Director of Euro Studies 2.38 Queen's Building University Walk Clifton Bristol BS8 1TR
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About Me
I've received the MEng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Guanajuato (Mexico) and the PhD. degree from the University of Bristol. My main research interests are the application of digital signal processing techniques to remote sensing, in particular to weather radar systems, the uncertainty in the measurement of precipitation using weather radar, the development of polarimetric weather radar to improve data quality, the estimation of precipitation for hydrological and meteorological purposes and quantitative precipitation forecasting using radar and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. The Water Research Group within the Department of Civil Engineering provides a focus to study water management issues both in the UK and overseas from a systems point of view. Key expertise within the centre exists in: radar hydrology, real-time flood forecasting, hydrological modelling, numerical weather prediction modelling, hydroinformatics, flood risk management and other aspects of risk and uncertainty.
Research Activities
Urban flood modelling using probabilistic radar rainfall ensembles (EPSRC-funded project, 2011-2012)
Prof. Bringi visits the Department of Civil Engineering (funded by The Leverhulme Trust, 2010)
Research Group
Dr Sara Liguori (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
Mr. Tanvir Islam (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Han)
Ms Deleen Al-Srafany (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Han)
Mr Prashant Srivastava (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Han)
Mr Qiang Dai (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Han)
Professional Activities
Member of Inter-Agency Committee on the Hydrological Use of Weather Radar (2005 - Present)
Member of South Western Committee of British Hydrological Society (2007 - Present)
Member of British Hydrological Society (BHS) (2007 - Present)
Teaching
Fluid Mechanics 1
Water Resources Project 3
Major Research/Design Projects
Hydraulics Lab
Hydraulic modelling (MSc course, River Engineering Module)
Admin duties
Director of MEng in Civil Engineering with Study in Continental Europe and Abroad programmes
Information for Incoming Erasmus Students
Study guide for incoming Erasmus students
Publications |
Journals & Conference Papers |
| 138481 Liguori, S & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Quantitative assessment of short-term rainfall forecasts from radar nowcasts and MM5 forecasts', Hydrological Processes, Accepted Article, (pp. -), 2012. 10.1002/hyp.8415 |
| 134769 Al-Shrafany, DMS, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Han, D. 'Calibration of Roughness Parameters using Rainfall Runoff Water Balance for Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval', Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, accepted, (pp. -), 2012. |
| 141511 Islam, T, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Thurai, M & Han, D. 'Characteristics of raindrop spectra as normalized gamma distribution from a Joss-Waldvogel Disdrometer', Atmospheric Research, in press, (pp. -), 2012. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.01.013 |
| 141147 Islam, T, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Han, D, Srivastava, PK & Ishak, AMB. 'Performance Evaluation of the TRMM Precipitation Estimation Using Ground-Based Radars from the GPM Validation Network', Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, in press, (pp. -), 2012. 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.01.001 |
| 132784 Liguori, S, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Schellart ANA & Saul A. 'Using probabilistic radar rainfall nowcasts and NWP forecasts for flow prediction in urban catchments', Atmospheric Research, 103, (pp. 80-95), 2012. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.05.004 |
| 132045 Liguori, S, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Schellart, A & Saul, A. 'High-resolution ensemble rainfall forecasts in urban hydrological applications', EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13, EGU2011-373, (pp. -), 2011. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-373.pdf |
| 141318 Schellart A, Ochoa, S, Simoes, N., Wang, L-P, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Liguori, S, Duncan, A, Chen, A.S., Keedwell, E., Djordjevic, S., Savic, D.A., Saul, A & Maksimovic, C. 'Urban pluvial flood modelling with real time rainfall information ? UK case studies', 12nd International Conference on Urban Drainage, Porto Alegre/Brazil, 10-15 September 2011, (pp. -), 2011. http://www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/icud2011.pdf |
| 131319 Bringi, VN, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Thurai, M. 'Rainfall Estimation with an Operational Polarimetric C-band Radar in the UK: Comparison with a Gauge Network and Error Analysis', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12, (pp. 935-954), 2011. ISSN: 1525-755X 10.1175/JHM-D-10-05013.1 |
| 127384 Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Attenuation correction algorithms for dual-polarisation C-band weather radars', The sixth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Sibiu, Romania, (pp. -), 2010. |
| 119421 Dastorani, MT, Moghadamnia, A, Piri, J & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Application of ANN and ANFIS models for reconstructing missing flow data', Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 166, (pp. 421-434), 2010. ISSN: 0167-6369 10.1007/s10661-009-1012-8 |
| 114115 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Gonzalez-Ramirez, E, Cluckie, ID & Han, D. 'Real-time Monitoring of Weather Radar Antenna Pointing using digital terrain elevation and a Bayes clutter classifier', Meteorological Applications, 16, (pp. 227-236), 2009. ISSN: 1350-4827 10.1002/met.112 |
| 119253 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Schellart ANA, Liguori, S & Saul AJ. 'Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting For A Small Urban Area: Use Of A High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model', 8th International Workshop On Precipitation In Urban Areas, Rainfall in the Urban Context: Forecasting, Risk and Climate Change, St. Moritz, Switzerland, (pp. 47-51), 2009. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/qpf2009a.pdf |
| 117441 Cluckie, ID, Zhu, D & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Extreme Tidal Surge Modelling In The River Thames Using A Coupled Modelling Approach', The 8th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Concepcion, Chile, (pp. 1-10), 2009. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/hic2009.pdf |
| 122304 Schellart ANA, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Liguori, S & Saul AJ. 'Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting For A Small Urban Area: Use Of Radar Nowcasting', 8th International Workshop On Precipitation In Urban Areas, Rainfall in the Urban Context: Forecasting, Risk and Climate Change, St. Moritz, Switzerland, (pp. 22-26), 2009. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/qpf2009b.pdf |
| 120577 Liguori, S, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Uncertainty propagation in hydrological forecasting using ensemble rainfall forecasts', In Hydroinformatics in Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources (ed. by ID Cluckie, Y Chen, V Babovic, L Konikow, A Mynett, S Demuth & DA Savic) (Proc. of Symposium JS.4 at the Joint IAHS & IAH Convention, Hyderabad, India, September 2009), IAHS Redbook Publication, 331, (pp. 30-40), 2009. ISBN: 9781907161025 http://www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/iahs2009.pdf |
| 114116 Reichel, F, Verworn, H.-R., Kramer, S, Cluckie, ID & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Radar-based flood forecasting for River Catchments', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Water Management, 162, (pp. 159-168), 2009. ISSN: 1741-7589 10.1680/wama.2009.162.2.159 |
| 113175 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Gonzalez-Ramirez, E & Cluckie, ID. 'On-line Monitoring of Weather Radar Antenna Pointing using high-resolution DTM and AI techniques', International Symposium Weather Radar and Hydrology, Grenoble, France, (pp. -), 2008. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/wrah2008-p1-010.pdf |
| 114114 Zou, Q, Reeve, D, Cluckie, ID, Pan, S, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Han, D, Lv X, Pedrozo-Acuna, A & Chen, Y. 'Ensemble Prediction of Inundation Risk and Uncertainty arising from Scour (EPIRUS): An Overview', Coastal Engineering 2008, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference, Hamburg, Germany, (pp. 4390-4400), 2008. 10.1142/9789814277426_0364 |
| 114112 Bray, MTJ, Han, D, Cluckie, ID & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Analysis of weather radar and rain gauges for flood forecasting', FLOODRISK 2008: The European Conference on Flood Risk Management, Research into Practice, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2008, Oxford, UK, (pp. -), 2008. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/floodrisk2008.pdf |
| 100408 Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Classification of ground clutter and anomalous propagation using dual-polarization weather radar', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46 (7), (pp. 1892-1904), 2008. ISSN: 0196-2892 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916979 |
| 114111 Zhu, D, Park, J-S, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Sensitivity Analysis of a Distributed Hydrological Model for the Upper Medway Catchment using Point and Radar-based Rainfall Data', In: Sustainable Hydrology for the 21st Century, Proc. 10th BHS National Hydrology Symposium, Exeter, (pp. 153-158), 2008. ISBN: 1903741165 www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/bhs2008.pdf |
| 109057 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Cluckie, ID, Shepherd, G & Pallot, A. 'A high-resolution radar experiment on the island of Jersey', Meteorological Applications, 14 (2), (pp. 117-129), 2007. ISSN: 1350-4827 10.1002/met.13 |
| 98538 Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Bright-band detection from radar vertical reflectivity profiles', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (18), (pp. 4013-4025), 2007. ISSN: 0143-1161 10.1080/01431160601047797 |
| 98540 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Cluckie, ID & Gonzalez-Ramirez, E. 'An overview on dual-polarization weather radars', Encuentro de Investigacion en Ingenieria Electrica, Zacatecas, Mexico, (pp. -), 2007. |
| 113176 McCulloch, D, Lawry, J, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Classification of Weather Radar Images using Linguistic Decision Trees with Conditional Labelling', IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, (pp. -), 2007. 10.1109/FUZZY.2007.4295588 |
| 120578 Mcculloch, DR, Lawry, J, Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Detecting Bright Band using AI techniques in radar hydrology', In: Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Change Detection (ed. by M Owe & C Neale) (Proceedings of Symposium HS3007 at IUGG2007, Perugia, July 2007), IAHS Redbook Publication, 316, (pp. 37-46), 2007. ISSN: 0144-7815, ISBN: 9781901502244 www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/iahs2007.pdf |
| 98930 Cluckie, ID, Rico-Ramirez, MA, Xuan, Y & Szalinska, W. 'An experiment of rainfall prediction over the odra catchment by combining weather radar and a numerical weather model', 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Nice, France, (pp. -), 2006. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/hic2006.pdf |
| 100397 Rico-Ramirez, MA & Cluckie, ID. 'Assessment of polarimetric rain rate algorithms at C-band frequencies', Fourth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Barcelona, Spain, (pp. 221-224), 2006. ISBN: 9881812277 www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/erad2006.pdf |
| 92744 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Cluckie, ID & Han, D. 'Correction of the bright band using dual-polarisation radar', Atmospheric Science Letters, 6 (1), (pp. 40-46), 2005. ISSN: 1530-261X 10.1002/asl.89 |
| 98893 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Cluckie, ID, Zawislak, T & Szalinska, W. 'A Preliminary Study of Vertical Radar reflectivity Profiles Over the Odra Basin', International Conference on Innovation, Advances and Implementation of Flood Forecasting Technology, Tromso, Norway, Proceedings, (pp. -), 2005. ISBN: 1898485148 www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/tromso2005.pdf |
| 92748 Cluckie, ID & Rico-Ramirez, MA. 'Weather Radar Technology and Future Developments', In: GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment (Ed. by Y Chen, K Takara, ID Cluckie & FH De Smedt) (Proceedings of ICORHWE held at the Three Gorges Dam, China, September 2003), IAHS Redbook Publication, 289, (pp. 11-20), 2004. ISBN: 1901502724 www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/iahs2004.pdf |
| 109060 Rico-Ramirez, MA, Cluckie, ID & Han, D. 'Correction for the bright band enhancement using dual-polarization scanning weather radar measurements for real-time operation', Sixth International Symposium on Hydrological Applications of Weather Radar. Success Stories in Radar Hydrology, Melbourne, Australia, (pp. -), 2004. www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/m.a.rico-ramirez/pdfs/hawr2004.pdf |
Others |
| 107342 Rico-Ramirez, MA. Quantitative weather radar and the effects of the vertical reflectivity profile, University of Bristol, 2004.(PhD Thesis) |