Doppler Radar and Weather Observations

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Doviak and Dusan S. Zrnic (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 575
• Edition: 2
• 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 atmospherix phenomena such as tornados, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning. Radar images and photographs of these weather phenomena are included.

Key Features
The Second Edition of Doviak and Zrnic's classic text has been expanded to include:
Polarimetric measurements and data processing
An updated section on RASS
Wind profilers
Observations with the WSR-88D
An updated treatment of lightning
Turbulence in the planetary boundary layer
A short history of radar
* Chapter problem sets

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Page xiii
Preface to the First Edition, Pages xv-xvi
List of Symbols, Pages xvii-xix
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-9
2 - Electromagnetic Waves and Propagation, Pages 10-29
3 - Radar and Its Environment, Pages 30-63
4 - Weather Signals, Pages 64-86
5 - Doppler Spectra of Weather Signals, Pages 87-121
6 - Weather Signal Processing, Pages 122-159
7 - Considerations in the Observation of Weather, Pages 160-208
8 - Precipitation Measurements, Pages 209-276,276a,276b,276c,276d,276e,276f,276g,276h,277-279
9 - Observations of Winds, Storms, and Related Phenomena, Pages 280-385
10 - Measurements of Turbulence, Pages 386-423
11 - Observations of Fair Weather, Pages 424-505
A - Geometric Relations for Rays in the Troposphere, Pages 507-509
B - Correlation between Signal Samples as a Function of Sample Time, Pages 510-512
C - Correlation of Echoes from Spaced Resolution Volumes, Pages 513-517
D - Geometric Optics Approximation to the Wave Equation, Pages 518-519
E - Derivation of Green's Function, Pages 520-521
References, Pages 523-545
Index, Pages 547-562