A New Radar for Measuring Winds
- Resource Type
- Authors
- G. E. Morrison; W. C. Campbell; R. G. Strauch; R. B. Chadwick; Ken Moran
- Source
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 57:1120-1125
- Subject
- Atmospheric Science
Meteorology
Pulse-Doppler radar
law.invention
Continuous-wave radar
Radar engineering details
law
Radar imaging
Envelope (radar)
Radar
Low-frequency radar
Radar horizon
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Geology
Remote sensing
- Language
- ISSN
- 1520-0477
0003-0007
A new radar technique for measuring winds in the lower atmosphere is discussed. It is an extension of the well-known FM-CW technique and has the same advantages of relatively low cost and high flexibility for a clear-air radar. Two different types of wind data from clear-air returns are presented. The first is horizontal wind data by the FM-CW radar; these are compared with winds obtained from a tethered balloon. The second is radial velocities associated with convection cells drifting past the radar. Also, two types of data processing are illustrated. The first is off-line processing of recorded digital data, and the second is real-time processing using a commercial spectrum analyzer.