Advances in Weather Radar : Precipitation Sensing Platforms, Volume 1.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bringi, V. N.

Contributor:

Mishra, Kumar Vijay.

Thurai, Merhala.

Series:

Radar, Sonar and Navigation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radar meteorology.

Precipitation (Meteorology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (684 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stevenage : Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents

About the editors

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of editors

List of contributors

List of reviewers

Introduction to volume 1

1. The decade of renaissance in weather radar research | Kumar Vijay Mishra, Merhala Thurai and V.N. Bringi

2. Doppler polarimetric radars for weather observations from 1995 to 2022: a historical perspective | Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Merhala Thurai and Dusan S. Zrnic

3. Developments in solid-state weather radar | Stephen J. Frasier and Luca Facheris

4. Quality of polarimetric data in the WSR-88D system | Valery M. Melnikov and Dusan S. Zrnic

5. Improvement of GPM dual-frequency precipitation radar algorithms for Version 07 | Shinta Seto

6. The NASA Polarimetric (NPOL) weather radar facility and some applications | David B. Wolff, David A. Marks, Charanjit S. Pabla, Jason L. Pippitt, Ali Tokay, Jianxin Wang and Michael Watson

7. NASA high altitude airborne weather radars | Gerald M. Heymsfield, Lihua Li, Matthew L. Walker McLinden, Liang Liao, Charles N. Helms and Stephen Guimond

8. Ocean-going weather and profiling radar for clouds and precipitation | P.T. May, B. Dolan, M. Katsumata, P.A. Kucera, V. Louf, A. Protat and C.R. Williams

9. A versatile stratosphere–troposphere radar at 205 MHz in the tropics | K. Mohanakumar, Titu K. Samson, P. Mohanan, K. Vasudevan, K.R. Santosh, V.K. Anandan, G. Viswanathan and B.M. Reddy

10. An integrated future US weather radar architecture for aviation | Mark E. Weber, John Y.N. Cho, Henry G. Thomas and James M. Kurdzo

11. The mitigation of ground clutter | J.C. Hubbert, S. Ellis and G. Meymaris

12. Polarimetric planar phased array radar – challenges for observing weather | Dusan S. Zrnic, Igor I. Ivic, Dordje Mirkovic, Lesya Borowska and Guifu Zhang Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-83724-458-8

1-5231-6298-8

1-83953-623-3

OCLC:

1420642337