Doppler Radar Observations - Weather Radar, Wind Profiler, Ionospheric Radar, and Other Advanced Applications

Edited by Joan Bech and Jorge Luis Chau

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Abstract: Doppler radar systems have been instrumental to improve our understanding and monitoring capabilities of phenomena taking place in the low, middle, and upper atmosphere. Weather radars, wind profilers, and incoherent and coherent scatter radars implementing Doppler techniques are now used routinely both in research and operational applications by scientists and practitioners. This book brings together a collection of eighteen essays by international leading authors devoted to different applications of ground based Doppler radars. Topics covered include, among others, severe weather surveillance, precipitation estimation and nowcasting, wind and turbulence retrievals, ionospheric radar and volcanological applications of Doppler radar. The book is ideally suited for graduate students looking for an introduction to the field or professionals intending to refresh or update their knowledge on Doppler radar applications.

JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0496-4
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Chapters in this book:

A Network of Portable, Low-Cost, X-Band Radars

Marco Gabella, Riccardo Notarpietro, Silvano Bertoldo, Andrea Prato, Claudio Lucianaz, Oscar Rorato, Marco Allegretti and Giovanni Perona

Aperture Synthesis Radar Imaging for Upper Atmospheric Research

David Hysell and Jorge Luis Chau

Automated Processing of Doppler Radar Data for Severe Weather Warnings

Paul Joe

Aviation Applications of Doppler Radars in the Alerting of Windshear And Turbulence

Pak Wai Chan and Pengfei Zhang

Doppler Radar for USA Weather Surveillance

Dusan Zrnic

Doppler Radar Tracking Using Moments

Mohammad Hossein Gholizadeh and Hamidreza Amindavar

Doppler Weather Radars and Wind Turbines

Lars Norin and Gunther Haase

Effects of Anomalous Propagation Conditions on Weather Radar Observations

Joan Bech, Adolfo Magaldi, Bernat Codina and Jeroni Lorente

Incoherent Scatter Radar - Spectral Signal Model and Ionospheric Applications

Erhan Kudeki and Marco Milla

Measuring Snow with Weather Radar

Elena Saltikoff

Multiple Doppler Radar Analysis for Retrieving the Three-Dimensional Wind Field Within Thunderstorms

Shingo Shimizu

New Observations by Wind Profiling Radars

Masayuki Yamamoto

Nowcasting

Clive Pierce, Alan Seed, Sue Ballard, David Simonin and Zhihong Li

Quality Control Algorithms Applied on Weather Radar Reflectivity Data

Jan Szturc, Katarzyna Osrodka and Anna Jurczyk

Retrieving High Resolution 3-D Wind Vector Fields from Operational Radar Networks

Olivier Bousquet

Synergy Between Doppler Radar and Lidar for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research

Chris G Collier

Use of Radar Precipitation Estimates in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Mexico City

Ernesto Dos Santos Caetano and Baldemar Mendez

Volcanological Applications of Doppler Radars: A Review and Examples from a Transportable Pulse Radar in L-Band

Franck Donnadieu

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DOI: 10.5772/2036

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