Advances in Weather Radar: 3 Volume Set
Book
1466 pages
978-1-83953-628-1 (ISBN)
Description
After nearly 50 years of sustained research and 30 years of operational deployment, research in weather radars has witnessed tremendous growth over the past decade and is now spilling over to novel applications and geographies. This book provides a systematic and thorough review of advances in research, developments, and technologies in the field.
A truly comprehensive collection in 3 volumes, Advances in Weather Radar has been developed by three expert editors and written by senior researchers from academia, research laboratories, and national weather agencies. Every chapter has been reviewed by the editors and an external reviewer to ensure quality and accuracy.
The key elements for understanding weather radar are covered, from the fundamental science and engineering to signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications. Special attention is given to dual-polarization radar because of its important applications in rainfall measurement, in elucidating details of cloud physical processes, classification of meteorological and non-meteorological echo types, the validation and evaluation of bulk microphysical schemes that predict number density and mixing ratio, and radar hydrology among other more recent applications.
Volume 1: Precipitation and sensing platforms begins with a historical overview of the last decade focusing on the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field forward, and goes on to address major advances in designing, operating, and deploying weather radars across the globe. Volume 2: Precipitation science, scattering, and processing algorithms considers theoretical milestones achieved in microphysics, electromagnetics, and signal processing of radar meteorology. Volume 3: Emerging applications includes applications of weather radars in novel as well as non-meteorological applications.
These edited volumes are intended to be useful to graduate students, radar systems designers, high-level managers of national meteorological services, and other research scientists who need to delve deeper into specific topics that cannot be found elsewhere.
A truly comprehensive collection in 3 volumes, Advances in Weather Radar has been developed by three expert editors and written by senior researchers from academia, research laboratories, and national weather agencies. Every chapter has been reviewed by the editors and an external reviewer to ensure quality and accuracy.
The key elements for understanding weather radar are covered, from the fundamental science and engineering to signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications. Special attention is given to dual-polarization radar because of its important applications in rainfall measurement, in elucidating details of cloud physical processes, classification of meteorological and non-meteorological echo types, the validation and evaluation of bulk microphysical schemes that predict number density and mixing ratio, and radar hydrology among other more recent applications.
Volume 1: Precipitation and sensing platforms begins with a historical overview of the last decade focusing on the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field forward, and goes on to address major advances in designing, operating, and deploying weather radars across the globe. Volume 2: Precipitation science, scattering, and processing algorithms considers theoretical milestones achieved in microphysics, electromagnetics, and signal processing of radar meteorology. Volume 3: Emerging applications includes applications of weather radars in novel as well as non-meteorological applications.
These edited volumes are intended to be useful to graduate students, radar systems designers, high-level managers of national meteorological services, and other research scientists who need to delve deeper into specific topics that cannot be found elsewhere.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stevenage
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83953-628-1 (9781839536281)
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V.N. Bringi is an emeritus professor at Colorado State University, USA. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University, then joined the faculty at Colorado University where he spent his entire career. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and recipient of the AMS Remote Sensing Prize in 2013.
Kumar Vijay Mishra is a senior fellow at the United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. He received his PhD in electrical engineering and MS in mathematics from The University of Iowa, Iowa City. He is the recipient of many best paper awards and fellowships including the IET Premium Award for Best Paper (2021), US National Academies ARL Harry Diamond Distinguished Fellowship (2018), and Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017).
Merhala Thurai is a research scientist at Colorado State University, USA. She received her BSc in Physics from Imperial College, London, and her PhD from King's College, London. She worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, UK, for 14 years, and has been with Colorado State University since 2004.
Kumar Vijay Mishra is a senior fellow at the United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. He received his PhD in electrical engineering and MS in mathematics from The University of Iowa, Iowa City. He is the recipient of many best paper awards and fellowships including the IET Premium Award for Best Paper (2021), US National Academies ARL Harry Diamond Distinguished Fellowship (2018), and Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017).
Merhala Thurai is a research scientist at Colorado State University, USA. She received her BSc in Physics from Imperial College, London, and her PhD from King's College, London. She worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, UK, for 14 years, and has been with Colorado State University since 2004.
Content
Volume 1: Precipitation sensing platforms
Chapter 1: The decade of renaissance in weather radar research
Chapter 2: Doppler polarimetric radars for weather observations from 1995 to 2022: a historical perspective
Chapter 3: Developments in solid-state weather radar
Chapter 4: Quality of polarimetric data in the WSR-88D system
Chapter 5: Improvement of GPM dual-frequency precipitation radar algorithms for Version 07
Chapter 6: The NASA Polarimetric (NPOL) weather radar facility and some applications
Chapter 7: NASA high altitude airborne weather radars
Chapter 8: Ocean-going weather and profiling radar for clouds and precipitation
Chapter 9: A versatile stratosphere-troposphere radar at 205 MHz in the tropics
Chapter 10: An integrated future US weather radar architecture for aviation
Chapter 11: The mitigation of ground clutter
Chapter 12: Polarimetric planar phased array radar - challenges for observing weather
Volume 2: Precipitation science, scattering and processing algorithms
Chapter 1: Phased array weather radar developed in Japan
Chapter 2: Weather radar data calibration and monitoring
Chapter 3: Scattering by snow particles
Chapter 4: Radar and hail: advances in scattering, detection, and sizing
Chapter 5: Understanding the role of rain drop shapes and fall velocities in rainfall estimation from polarimetric weather radars
Chapter 6: The raindrop size distribution - the unknown that holds everything together
Chapter 7: Fusion of radar polarimetry and atmospheric modeling
Chapter 8: End-to-end simulations of dual-polarization tornado debris signatures
Chapter 9: Satellite combined radar-radiometer algorithms
Chapter 10: Weather radar measurements in Antarctica
Chapter 11: Radar advances related to severe weather
Chapter 12: Deep-learning-aided rainfall estimation from communications satellite links
Volume 3: Emerging applications
Chapter 1: Radar hydrology
Chapter 2: Quantitative precipitation estimation from weather radars, personal weather stations and commercial microwave links
Chapter 3: Quantitative weather radar: a research to operations perspective in Canada
Chapter 4: Volcanic plume retrieval using weather radar
Chapter 5: The effect of weather on the performance of mm-wave and sub-THz automotive radar
Chapter 6: Spectral interference in weather radars from wireless communication systems
Chapter 7: Advances in weather radar monitoring of bird movement
Chapter 8: Complementary operation of Doppler radar and lidar at airports
Chapter 1: The decade of renaissance in weather radar research
Chapter 2: Doppler polarimetric radars for weather observations from 1995 to 2022: a historical perspective
Chapter 3: Developments in solid-state weather radar
Chapter 4: Quality of polarimetric data in the WSR-88D system
Chapter 5: Improvement of GPM dual-frequency precipitation radar algorithms for Version 07
Chapter 6: The NASA Polarimetric (NPOL) weather radar facility and some applications
Chapter 7: NASA high altitude airborne weather radars
Chapter 8: Ocean-going weather and profiling radar for clouds and precipitation
Chapter 9: A versatile stratosphere-troposphere radar at 205 MHz in the tropics
Chapter 10: An integrated future US weather radar architecture for aviation
Chapter 11: The mitigation of ground clutter
Chapter 12: Polarimetric planar phased array radar - challenges for observing weather
Volume 2: Precipitation science, scattering and processing algorithms
Chapter 1: Phased array weather radar developed in Japan
Chapter 2: Weather radar data calibration and monitoring
Chapter 3: Scattering by snow particles
Chapter 4: Radar and hail: advances in scattering, detection, and sizing
Chapter 5: Understanding the role of rain drop shapes and fall velocities in rainfall estimation from polarimetric weather radars
Chapter 6: The raindrop size distribution - the unknown that holds everything together
Chapter 7: Fusion of radar polarimetry and atmospheric modeling
Chapter 8: End-to-end simulations of dual-polarization tornado debris signatures
Chapter 9: Satellite combined radar-radiometer algorithms
Chapter 10: Weather radar measurements in Antarctica
Chapter 11: Radar advances related to severe weather
Chapter 12: Deep-learning-aided rainfall estimation from communications satellite links
Volume 3: Emerging applications
Chapter 1: Radar hydrology
Chapter 2: Quantitative precipitation estimation from weather radars, personal weather stations and commercial microwave links
Chapter 3: Quantitative weather radar: a research to operations perspective in Canada
Chapter 4: Volcanic plume retrieval using weather radar
Chapter 5: The effect of weather on the performance of mm-wave and sub-THz automotive radar
Chapter 6: Spectral interference in weather radars from wireless communication systems
Chapter 7: Advances in weather radar monitoring of bird movement
Chapter 8: Complementary operation of Doppler radar and lidar at airports