Assessment of rainfall erosivity from radar-based precipitation (case of Kakheti, Georgia)

Project title: Assessment of rainfall erosivity from radar-based precipitation (case of Kakheti, Georgia)

Funding organization: DAAD-Rustaveli

Start and end dates: 2021

Principal investigator: Mariam Tsitsagi

Key personnel: Mariam Tsitsagi

Project Summary: The project envisaged the acquisition of the practical skills needed to process radar images. Radar imagery is a step forward in climatology. And the knowledge gained within the framework of the research will be the most important step forward in the development of radar-based climatology in Georgia.

Achieved results: Scientific collaboration between Georgian and German colleagues, a joint project at the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, for fundamental research