High resolution 3D wind profiling using an S-band polarimetric FM-CW radar: dealiasing techniques
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The Transportable Atmospheric RAdar (TARA) is an Sband polarimetric FM-CW profiler that is located at the meteorological site, Cabauw, the Netherlands (Russchenberg et al. 2005). At this wavelength (λ=9.1 cm), the wind tracers are raindrops, water cloud droplets, ice crystals and snowflakes. These particles are ranging in sizes from 0.01 mm to 10 mm. Clear air scattering, which consists of reflection echos from spatial differences in refractivity index of the order of λ/2, gives another possibility of wind tracing in absence of hydrometeors.
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