The Use of Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) of Disdrometer

and weather RADAR to Determine the Microphysics

Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall in Jakarta.
(Jakarta Flood Case Study February 25, 2020)
I Dewa Gede Arya Putra 1 , Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan 2 , Bintoro Puspo Adi 3 , Kadek Ari Sudama 3 , Jose Rizal 1 , Eko Heriyanto 1 ,
Nurdeka Hidayanto 1 , Donaldi Sukma Permana1 , Nelly Florida Riama 1, Lukman Soleh 4
1 Center for Research and Development, Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Jakarta, Indonesia
2Center for Applied Climate Service, Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics, (BMKG), Jakarta, Indonesia
3Cengkareng Meteorological Station, Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics, (BMKG), Tangerang, Indonesia
4Kemayoran Meteorological Station, Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics, (BMKG), Jakarta, Indonesia

INTRODUCTION
In early 2020 the BMKG research and development
center installed a laser precipitation measurement
(LPM) disdrometer at a meteorological station in
Kemayoran. On January 25, 2020, floods occurred again
in most areas of Jakarta and its surroundings, this
study is intended to see the characteristics of the
extreme rain that occurred on February 24, 2020, so
that it is expected to provide an overview of the
microphysical characteristics of the incident.

METHODOLOGY
The method used in this study is, the minute rainfall
data from LPM in excel format is accumulated into
daily rainfall by adding up the rain per minute with a
total of 1,440 minutes in one day into mm / day from 1
to 29 February 2020 then plotted. in the form of a
graph to see the fluctuation of daily rainfall during
February 2020 using the R program. Minute rainfall
data is plotted for 24 hours (1440 minutes) and
compared on a daily basis to see the diurnal pattern of
the minute rain pattern so that the dominant time of
Based on LPM observation data with a minute-scale time
rain and rainfall will be known. the end of the rain in a
series resolution installed at the Kemayoran meteorological
diurnal pattern. Cengkareng's RADAR EEC data on
station, it occurred on February 24, starting at 16.32 UTC
February 22-29, 2020 in the form of vol-format, is first
(23.32 Jakarta Time) and ending on February 25 at 01.44 UTC
converted to vol-NetCDF using the Enterprise Doppler
(08.44 Jakarta Time).
Graphic Environment (EDGE) software on the radar
server computer at the Cengkareng meteorological
station. CONCLUSION
Rain occurs for 10 hours 12 minutes with fluctuating intensity
RESULTS
and rain occurs continuously without pause. The peak of
extreme rain that was recorded by the LPM disdrometer was
at 18.17 UTC with an intensity reaching 4.38 mm / minute
(262.87 mm / hour) with the microphysical characteristics of
rain, namely with 1000 raindrops, the maximum fall speed is
20 m / s, and the maximum diameter is 8.5 millimeters.

Heavy rain with a value above 100 mm/day occurred 4
times which were recorded, namely on February 1, 7, 22,
and 24. The maximum one-day accumulated rainfall
value occurred on February 24, 2020, which was
recorded from the LPM measurement recorded at 358.6
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