Doppler Radar & Weather Observations

by Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic

Overview

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.

• 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483294827
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	562
File size:	31 MB
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Introduction. Electromagnetic Waves and Propagation. Radar and Its Environment. Weather Signals. Doppler Spectra of Other Signals. Weather Signal Processing. Considerations in the Observation of Weather. Precipitation Measurements. Observations of Fair Weather. Appendices. Index.