On the Use of Radars for Operational Wind Profiling

Balsley, B. B.; Gage, K. S.

doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1982)063<1009:otuorf>2.0.co;2

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“…Satellite platforms and radar facilities are producing gigabytes of data each day, and planned networks of doppler radars (Milner, 1986) and vertical profilers (Balsley and Gage, 1982) will provide a new flood of information. These data sources as well as numerous types of more-conventional surface and upper-air observations must be archived and distributed.…”

Section: The Problems Of Data Archivalmentioning

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The Use of Compact Discs for the Storage of Large Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Sets

Mass¹,

Edmon²,

Friedman³

et al. 1987

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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Section: The Problems Of Data Archivalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Compact Discs for the Storage of Large Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Sets

Mass¹,

Edmon²,

Friedman³

et al. 1987

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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“…Stratosphere-Troposphere (ST) radars are meteorological devices primarily designed to provide vertical profiles of the three components of the wind in the troposphere and lower stratosphere (Gage and Balsley, 1978;Larsen and Röttger, 1982;Balsley and Gage, 1982). Height and time resolution of the measurements are typically about one hundred meters and a few minutes, respectively.…”

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“…This inexpensive and continuous source in time and direction was used or proposed in several works to measure the loss factor and diagram of the antenna (Czechowsky et al, 1983;Hocking and Lawry, 1989;Lamy et al, 1991), to verify beam pointing direction (Werner et al, 1971;Whiton et al, 1978;Riddle, 1986), or to monitor system performance (Clark et al, 1989). On an other hand, ST radars have been used as radio telescope or meteor radar for conducting passive or active astronomical observations (among others, Watanabe et al, 1992;Woodman and Sarango, 1996;Brown et al, 1998).…”

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A partial 45 MHz sky temperature map obtained from the observations of five ST radars

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Abstract.A sky temperature map at 45 MHz covering declination between +30 • and +60 • is presented. The sampling in right ascension is 20 min (∼5 • ) and 2 • in declination in most of the map. The originality of the work was to use cosmic emission measurements from five VHF StratosphereTroposphere (ST) radars collected during long periods of routine meteorological surveys. This map, which has an accuracy in temperature of about 600 K, is intended first for radar reflectivity calibration and system performance monitoring. The presence of two strong radio sources, Cassiopeia A and Cygnus A, can also serve as the verification of the beam diagram, beam width, and beam pointing direction of the antenna. Finally, this work is an attempt to show the potentiality of ST radar for astronomical purposes.

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“…However, the development of wind profilers has revolutionized the lower atmospheric studies with their excellent height and temporal resolutions (Gage and Balsley, 1978;Balsley and Gage, 1982). The UHF wind profilers are better suited for lower tropospheric observations (Ecklund et al, 1988;Rogers et al, 1993;Gage et al, 1994;Ralph et al, 1995;Williams et al, 1995;Gossard et al, 1998).…”

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Seasonal, annual and inter-annual features of turbulence parameters over the tropical station Pune (18°32' N, 73°51' E) observed with UHF wind profiler

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Abstract. The present study is specifically focused on the seasonal, annual and inter-annual variations of the refractive index structure parameter (C 2 n ) using three years of radar observations. Energy dissipation rates (ε) during different seasons for a particular year are also computed over a tropical station, Pune. Doppler spectral width measurements made by the Wind Profiler, under various atmospheric conditions, are utilized to estimate the turbulence parameters. The refractive index structure parameter varies from 10 −17.5 to 10 −13 m −2/3 under clear air to precipitation conditions in the height region of 1.05 to 10.35 km. During the monsoon months, observed C 2 n values are up to 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than those during pre-monsoon and postmonsoon seasons. Spectral width correction for various nonturbulent spectral broadenings such as beam broadening and shear broadening are made in the observed spectral width for reliable estimation of ε under non-precipitating conditions. It is found that in the lower tropospheric height region, values of ε are in the range of 10 −6 to 10 −3 m 2 s −3 . In summer and monsoon seasons the observed values of ε are larger than those in post-monsoon and winter seasons in the lower troposphere. A comparison of C 2 n observed with the wind profiler and that estimated using Radio Sonde/Radio Wind (RS/RW) data of nearby Met station Chikalthana has been made for the month of July 2003.

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On the Use of Radars for Operational Wind Profiling

Cited by 69 publications

References 15 publications

The Use of Compact Discs for the Storage of Large Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Sets

The Use of Compact Discs for the Storage of Large Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Sets

A partial 45 MHz sky temperature map obtained from the observations of five ST radars

Seasonal, annual and inter-annual features of turbulence parameters over the tropical station Pune (18°32' N, 73°51' E) observed with UHF wind profiler

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