Download or read book Weather Radar written by Peter Meischner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their images practically ubiquitious in the daily media, weather radar systems provide data not only for understanding weather systems and improving forecasts (especially critical for severe weather), but also for hydrological applications, flood warnings and climate research in which ground verification is needed for global precipitation measurements by satellites. This book offers an accessible overview of advanced methods, applications and modern research from the European perspective. An extensive introductory chapter summarizes the principles of weather radars and discusses the potential of modern radar systems, including Doppler and polarisation techniques, data processing, and error-correction methods. Addressing both specialist researchers and nonspecialists from related areas, this book will also be useful for graduate students planning to specialize in this field

Download or read book Weather Radar Technology Beyond NEXRAD written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather radar is a vital instrument for observing the atmosphere to help provide weather forecasts and issue weather warnings to the public. The current Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) system provides Doppler radar coverage to most regions of the United States (NRC, 1995). This network was designed in the mid 1980s and deployed in the 1990s as part of the National Weather Service (NWS) modernization (NRC, 1999). Since the initial design phase of the NEXRAD program, considerable advances have been made in radar technologies and in the use of weather radar for monitoring and prediction. The development of new technologies provides the motivation for appraising the status of the current weather radar system and identifying the most promising approaches for the development of its eventual replacement. The charge to the committee was to determine the state of knowledge regarding ground-based weather surveillance radar technology and identify the most promising approaches for the design of the replacement for the present Doppler Weather Radar. This report presents a first look at potential approaches for future upgrades to or replacements of the current weather radar system. The need, and schedule, for replacing the current system has not been established, but the committee used the briefings and deliberations to assess how the current system satisfies the current and emerging needs of the operational and research communities and identified potential system upgrades for providing improved weather forecasts and warnings. The time scale for any total replacement of the system (20- to 30-year time horizon) precluded detailed investigation of the designs and cost structures associated with any new weather radar system. The committee instead noted technologies that could provide improvements over the capabilities of the evolving NEXRAD system and recommends more detailed investigation and evaluation of several of these technologies. In the course of its deliberations, the committee developed a sense that the processes by which the eventual replacement radar system is developed and deployed could be as significant as the specific technologies adopted. Consequently, some of the committee's recommendations deal with such procedural issues.

Download or read book Advances in Weather Radar written by V N Bringi and published by IET. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook written by a team of international experts discusses the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field of weather radar forward. The book covers the five areas of weather radars: science, engineering, signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications.

Download or read book Advances in Weather Radar written by V.N. Bringi and published by IET. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly 50 years of sustained research and 30 years of operational deployment, research in weather radars has witnessed tremendous growth over the past decade and is now spilling over to novel applications and geographies. This book provides a systematic and thorough review of advances in research, developments, and technologies in the field.

Download or read book ADVANCES IN WEATHER RADAR written by V.N. BRINGI and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radar in Meteorology written by David Atlas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated volume covers the history of radar meteorology, deals with the issues in the field from both the operational and the scientific viewpoint, and looks ahead to future issues and how they will affect the current atmosphere. With over 200 contributors, the volume is a product of the entire community and represents an unprecedented compendium of knowledge in the field.

Download or read book Advances in Weather Radar written by V N Bringi and published by IET. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook written by a team of international experts discusses the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field of weather radar forward. The book covers the five areas of weather radars: science, engineering, signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications.

Download or read book Progress and Prospects of Radar Meteorology written by David Atlas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems written by Pravas Mahapatra and published by IET. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on radar-based surveillance, this book has been written to provide a comprehensive introduction to the science, sensors and systems that form modern aviation weather surveillance systems.

Download or read book Weather Radar Polarimetry written by Guifu Zhang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the fundamentals of polarimetric radar remote sensing through understanding wave scattering and propagation in geophysical media filled with hydrometers and other objects. The text characterizes the physical, statistical, and electromagnetic properties of hydrometers and establishes the relations between radar observables and physical state parameters. It introduces advanced remote sensing techniques (such as polarimetric phased array radar) and retrieval methods for physical parameters. The book also illustrates applications of polarimetric radar measurements in hydrometer classification, particle size distribution retrievals, microphysical parameterization, and weather quantification and forecast.

Download or read book Doppler Radar Observations written by Joan Bech and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Advances in Bistatic Radar written by Nicholas J. Willis and published by SciTech Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference updates bistatic and multistatic radar developments since the publication of Nicholas Willis' seminal book Bistatic Radar published in 1991 and revised in 1995. The book is organized into two major sections: Bistatic/ Multistatic Radar Systems and Bistatic Clutter and Signal Processing. New and recently declassified military applications are documented. Civil applications are detailed for the first time, including commercial and scientific systems. Several of the most honored radar engineers of this era provide expertise in each of these applications. Professionals in radar and sonar will find this book a valuable resource

Download or read book Weather Radar Networking written by D.H. Newsome and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty years, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of opera tional, digital weather radars in Europe. Work within COST 73 stimulated the use of data from these radars and also demonstrated the potential of the international exchange of weather radar data in near real-time. The Management Committee of the COST 73 Project have laid the foun dations upon which future international operational radar networking may be built in Europe, and has indicated the directions that future weather radar technological developments might take. Throughout this five year Project, it has been possible to achieve success o~ through the goodwill of the participants. The considerable international co-operation is, in no smaIl measure, the underpinning reason why the Management Committee of COST 73 have been able to address such a wide range of topics within the general category of international weather radar networking. It has been an honour to have had the opportunity to act as Chairman of a group of meteorolo gists, engineers and managers possessing such a wide variety of talents and experience. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all for their many and varied contributions.

Download or read book Design of Multi Frequency CW Radars written by M. Jankiraman and published by SciTech Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the basic theory for design and analysis of Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) radar systems. The design of one such multi-frequency high resolution LPI radar, PANDORA, is covered. This work represents the first time that the topic of multi-frequency radars is discussed in such detail and it is based on research conducted by the author in The Netherlands. The book provides the design tools needed for development, design, and analysis of high resolution radar systems for commercial as well as military applications. Software written in MATLAB and C++ is provided to guide the reader in calculating radar parameters and in ambiguity function analysis. Some radar simulation software is also included.

Download or read book A Vision for the National Weather Service written by Panel on the Road Map for the Future and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-03-18 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the committee explores ways the National Weather Service (NWS) can take advantage of continuing advances in science and technology to meet the challenges of the future. The predictions are focused on the target year 2025. Because specific predictions about the state of science and technology or the NWS more than 25 years in the future will not be entirely accurate, the goal of this report is to identify and highlight trends that are most likely to influence change. The Panel on the Road Map for the Future National Weather Service developed an optimistic vision for 2025 based on advances in science and technology.

Download or read book Advances in Doppler Weather Radar Observing Methods and Data Processing Techniques written by Calvin C. Easterbrook and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuing objective of the Navy-sponsored, Doppler radar studies has been to develop the operational utility of the radar, both as a weather research tool and as an observing instrument useful for specialized, short-term forecasting. To fill this role effectively, observing techniques and data processing methods must be developed that will permit a single Doppler radar to work alone. The work discussed in this report deals with attempts to push even further the utility of single component measurements in describing the total wind field. First, a curve fitting technique is described which provides estimates of the horizontal wind from small azimuth sector scans. Using this method, it is possible to get independent estimates of the wind vector at many different points in space and thus learn something of the spatial variability of the wind. The single parameter curve fitting technique is then extended to two dimensions. It is shown how the area fitting technique provides the means to compute the spatial derivatives of the wind field directly from a single, small sector scan. (Author).

Download or read book International Weather Radar Networking written by C.G. Collier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Weather Radar Networking covers all aspects of the subject in a collection of contributions drawn from all over the world. Of particular interest are the papers describing work in Eastern Europe and papers reviewing of the achievements of the Commission of the European Communities COST-73 project. During the last twenty years there has been a rapid growth in the number of digital radars deployed for operational use in Western Europe. There are now around 100, of which about half have a Doppler capability, providing wind as well as reflectivity information. The international exchange of the data from these systems promises a great enhancement of the benefits to weather forecasting and commercial users. This volume reports work being undertaken to realize those benefits and points the way to future developments of radar technology.