Radar meteorology: principles and practice
This practical textbook introduces the fundamental physics behind radar measurements, to guide students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity and dual-polarization imagery. Operational applications are explored, such as how radar imagery can be used t...
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| Summary: | This practical textbook introduces the fundamental physics behind radar measurements, to guide students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity and dual-polarization imagery. Operational applications are explored, such as how radar imagery can be used to analyze and forecast convective and widespread weather systems. The book concludes with an overview of current research topics, including the study of clouds and precipitation using radars, signal processing, and data assimilation. Numerous full-color illustrations are included, as well as problem sets, case studies, and a variety of supplementary electronic material including animated time sequences of images to help convey complex concepts. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in radar meteorology and other related courses, such as precipitation microphysics and dynamics. It will also make a useful reference for researchers, professional meteorologists and hydrologists. |
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Notation
1 Meteorology and radar
1.1 How it all started
1.2 Why radars now
1.3 Understanding radar observations
1.4 Supplemental readings
2 Fundamentals of weather radar measurements
2.1 Radar: an active remote sensor
2.2 Microwaves and the atmosphere
2.3 Propagation in the atmosphere
2.4 Basic radar measurements
2.5 Weather surveillance
3 Radar reflectivity and products
3.1 The radar equation
3.2 The equivalent reflectivity factor
3.3 Reflectivity factor and rain rate
3.4 Radar products
4 Reflectivity patterns
4.1 Types of targets
4.2 Precipitation processes: a quick overview
4.3 The vertical structure of rain echoes
4.4 Radar signatures of widespread rain
4.5 Frozen precipitation
4.6 Nonprecipitation weather targets
4.7 Nonweather targets
4.8 An echo identification approach
5 Doppler velocity information
5.1 Doppler measurements
5.2 Information at vertical incidence and profiling
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5.3 Mean Doppler velocity on PPI displays 76
5.4 Velocity-based products 83
5.5 Data contamination and ambiguities 86
6 The added value of dual polarization 92
6.1 Why polarization matters 92
6.2 Dual-polarization measurables 93
6.3 Signatures and artifacts 102
6.4 Applications 110
7 Convective storm surveillance 115
7.1 A forecast approach 115
7.2 Severe convection and its controls 116
7.3 What to look for 126
8 Monitoring widespread systems 133
8.1 Radar, widespread systems, and threat forecasting 133
8.2 What radar can contribute 136
8.3 A case study of winter storm forecasting 142
8.4 What about tropical cyclones? 145
9 Radar estimation of precipitation 148
9.1 Precipitation monitoring needs 148
9.2 Sources of estimation errors 150
9.3 Radar-based accumulation generation 152
9.4 Uses 165
10 Nowcasting 166
10.1 Nowcasting needs and approaches 166
10.2 The basis for simple nowcasting systems: extrapolation 168
10.3 Precipitation nowcasting 169
10.4 Severe weather nowcasting 171
10.5 Mesoscale modeling after radar data assimilation 174
11 Additional radar measurements and retrievals 180
11.1 Using multiple viewing angles 180
11.2 Multiple Doppler retrievals 183
11.3 Near-surface refractive index 185
11.4 Multiple-frequency and attenuation measurements 186
12 Cloud and spaceborne radars 189
12.1 Cloud radars 189
12.2 Spaceborne radars 195
Contents
13 What does radar really measure? 201
13.1 The radar system 201
13.2 The weather echo and its fluctuations 208
13.3 Representativeness of measurements 210
13.4 Where do we go from here? 214
Appendix A Mathematics and statistics of radar meteorology 215
A. 1 Geometry of ground-based radar measurements 215
A.2 Operations on reflectivity data 221
A.3 Regressions and mapping functions 223
A.4 Variances, covariances, and autocorrelations 227
A.5 Basic radar signal processing 234
References 244
Index 254
Radar Meteorology
Radar is a key instrument used in meteorology for monitoring wind and precipitation, and
has become the primary tool used for short-term weather forecasting. This practical text-
book introduces the fundamental concepts behind radar measurements and their meteor-
ological interpretation.
The first part of the book provides the essential background theory behind radar
measurements to guide students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of radar
reflectivity, Doppler velocity, and dual-polarization imagery. Operational applications are
then explored, such as how radar imagery can be used to analyze and forecast convective
and widespread weather systems. The book concludes with an overview of current research
topics, including the study of clouds and precipitation using ground-based and spacebome
radars, signal processing, and data assimilation.
Numerous full-color illustrations are included, as well as case studies, and a variety of
supplementary electronic material, including problem sets and animated time sequences
of images to help convey complex concepts. This book is a valuable resource for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students in radar meteorology and other related courses, such
as precipitation microphysics and dynamics. It will also make a useful reference for
researchers, professional meteorologists, and hydrologists.
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