A New Radar for Measuring Winds
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- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Vol. 57 (9) , 1120-1125
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1976)057<1120:anrfmw>2.0.co;2
Abstract
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.Keywords
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