Radar for Meteorological and Atmospheric Observations

✍ Scribed by Shoichiro Fukao, Kyosuke Hamazu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 556
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Epoch-making progress in meteorology and atmospheric science has always been hastened by the development of advanced observational technologies, in particular, radar technology. This technology depends on a wide range of sciences involving diverse disciplines, from electrical engineering and electronics to computer sciences and atmospheric physics. Meteorological radar and atmospheric radar each has a different history and has been developed independently. Particular radar activities have been conducted within their own communities. Although the technology of these radars draws upon many common fields, until now the interrelatedness and interdisciplinary nature of the research fields have not been consistently discussed in one volume containing fundamental theories, observational methods, and results. This book is by two authors who, with long careers in the two fields, one in academia and the other in industry, are ideal partners for writing on the comprehensive science and technology of radars for meteorological and atmospheric observations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Electromagnetic Waves....Pages 7-31
Radar Measurements and Scatterer Parameters....Pages 33-73
Principle of Doppler Velocity Measurement....Pages 75-104
Reception and Processing of Signals....Pages 105-166
Radar Observations of Precipitation....Pages 167-222
Radar Observations of the Clear Atmosphere....Pages 223-267
Overview of Radar....Pages 269-339
Practical Meteorological Radars....Pages 341-368
Practical Atmospheric Radars....Pages 369-394
Observations by Meteorological Radar....Pages 395-433
Observations by Atmospheric Radar....Pages 435-485
Errata....Pages E1-E5
Back Matter....Pages 487-537

✦ Subjects

Atmospheric Sciences;Meteorology;Geophysics and Environmental Physics;Communications Engineering, Networks