Doppler Radar and Weather Observations

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Doviak (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 469
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning.
Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this text was written by two scientists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Topics include electromagnetic waves and propagation, weather signals and their Doppler spectra, weather signal processing, measurements of precipitation and turbulence, and observations of winds and storms as well as fair weather. Radar images and photographs of weather phenomena highlight the text.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Acknowledgments, Page xiii
List of Symbols, Pages xv-xvii
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-3
2 - Electromagnetic Waves and Propagation, Pages 4-20
3 - Principles of Radar, Pages 21-46
4 - Weather Echo Signals, Pages 47-61
5 - Doppler Spectra of Weather Echoes, Pages 62-90
6 - Meteorological Radar Signal Processing, Pages 91-120
7 - Considerations in the Observation of Weather, Pages 121-178
8 - Rain Measurements, Pages 179-239
9 - Observations of Winds, Storms, and Related Phenomena, Pages 240-270,270a,270b,270c,270d,271-323
10 - Measurement of Turbulence, Pages 324-358
11 - Echoes from the Precipitation-Free Turbulent Troposphere, Pages 359-436
APPENDIX A - Geometric Relations for Rays in the Troposphere, Pages 437-439
APPENDIX B - Correlation between Echo Samples as a Function of Sample Time, Pages 440-442
APPENDIX C - Correlation of Echoes from Spaced Resolution Volumes, Pages 443-447
APPENDIX D - Geometric Optics Approximation to the Wave Equation, Pages 448-449
APPENDIX E - Derivation of Green's Function, Pages 450-451
Index, Pages 453-458