Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1: Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Electric and magnetic fields
1.3 The nature of electromagnetic radiation
1.4 Interactions of electromagnetic waves with matter
1.5 Polarization of electromagnetic waves
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 2: Radar Hardware
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Frequency and wavelength
2.3 Components of a weather radar system
2.4 Specialized radar systems
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 3: Radar Characteristics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Range and range ambiguity
3.3 The transmitted and received signal
3.4 Radar geometry and types of displays
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 4: The Path of a Radar Ray
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Ray propagation in an idealized atmosphere
4.3 Anomalous propagation
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 5: Power and the Radar Reflectivity Factor
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Radar equation for a solitary target
5.3 Radar equation for a distributed target
5.4 The weather radar equation
5.5 Summary
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 6: Radial Velocity—The Doppler Effect
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Measurement of radial velocity
6.3 Doppler spectra
6.4 Measurement of the Doppler moments
6.5 Summary
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 7: Dual-Polarization Radar
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The physical bases for radar polarimetry
7.3 Measuring polarimetric quantities
7.4 Reflectivity, differential reflectivity, and linear depolarization ratio
7.5 Polarization and phase
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 8: Clear Air Echoes
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Ground clutter
8.3 Echoes from biological sources
8.4 Debris, dust, and smoke
8.5 Aircraft echoes and chaff
8.6 Other non-meteorological echo sources
8.7 Bragg scattering
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 9: Propagation Effects: Attenuation and Refractivity
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Attenuation
9.3 Refractivity
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 10: Operational Radar Networks
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The WSR-88D radar network
10.3 Terminal Doppler weather radars
10.4 International operational radar networks
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 11: Doppler Velocity Patterns and Single-Radar Wind Retrieval
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Kinematic properties of the wind field
11.3 Doppler radial velocity patterns and the wind field
11.4 Wind retrieval with profiling radars
11.5 Velocity–azimuth display wind retrieval
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 12: Multiple Doppler Wind Retrieval
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Network design and deployment
12.3 Characteristics of single Doppler data
12.4 Procedures for multiple Doppler syntheses
12.5 Summary
Important terms
Review questions
Chapter 13: Precipitation Estimation with Radar
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Measurement of precipitation rate, total precipitation, and particle size distributions
13.3 Nature of particle size distributions
13.4 Radar remote sensing of precipitation
13.5 Precipitation estimation using dual polarization
13.6 Winter precipitation
13.7 Measuring precipitation from space
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 14: Warm Season Convection
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Mesoscale convective systems
14.3 Supercell thunderstorms
14.4 Downbursts and wind shear
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 15: Extratropical Cyclones
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Radar approaches to monitor cyclone mesostructure
15.3 Mesoscale structures observable with radar
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 16: Tropical Cyclones
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Airborne and satellite radar systems for tropical cyclone research and operations
16.3 Tropical cyclone structure and kinematics
16.4 Operational use of radar to detect tropical cyclone hazards
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Chapter 17: Clouds and Vertical Motions
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Cloud radars
17.3 Application of cloud radars
Important terms
Review questions
Challenge problems
Appendix A: List of Variables (and Chapters)
Appendix B: Derivation of the Exact Equation for a Ray Path through a Spherically Stratified Atmosphere
Index
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