Effects of Anomalous Propagation Conditions on Weather Radar Observations
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The effect of atmospheric propagation on radar observations is an important topic both for radar application developers and end-users of radar products, particularly of weather radar systems. An excellent review of this subject is given by Patterson (2008), and most general books about weather radars have a chapter on the topic –see for example Battan (1973), Collier (1996), Doviak and Zrnic (2006), Rinehart (2001) or Sauvageot (1991).
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