Effects of along- and cross-radar-beam winds on Doppler radar spectrum

Effects of along- and cross-radar-beam winds on Doppler radar spectrum

Beam broadening effects on the Doppler radar spectrum induced by alongand cross-radar-beam winds are theoretically investigated in this article. Analytical expression of beam broadening spectrum for a vertical beam subject to a constant vertical wind in the absence of horizontal wind is derived first. We find that the resultant beam broadening spectral shape is in an exponential form, rather th...

Processing of Doppler radar radial winds for data assimilation

Atmospheric wind field is 3-dimensional and variable over time and space. Doppler radar measures one component of the wind vector, ie. the radar radial component. For complete description of the wind field simultaneous measurements should be made with three Doppler radars. Usually only one radar is available and the availability of the other two radars is compencated by simplifying assumptions ...

A Study of Doppler Beam Swinging Using an Imaging Radar

In this paper, a study of the Doppler Beam Swinging (DBS) technique for horizontal wind estimation using an imaging radar is presented. The primary goal is to quantify effects of temporal and spatial inhomogeneities in the quality of DBS wind estimates. The DBS technique has been extensively applied to Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radars, including boundary layer radars (BLR), to o...

Doppler Radar Observations

Effects of Radar Beam Shielding on Rainfall Estimation for the Polarimetric C-Band Radar

Radar reflectivity (Zh), differential reflectivity (Zdr), and specific differential phase (Kdp) measured from the operational, polarimetric weather radar located in Trappes, France, were used to examine the effects of radar beam shielding on rainfall estimation. The objective of this study is to investigate the degree of immunity of Kdp-based rainfall estimates to beam shielding for C-band rada...