Title
Wind‐profiling Doppler radars for tropical atmospheric research
Date Issued
01 January 1990
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Wiley-Blackwell
Abstract
The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the use of wind profilers in atmospheric research [Gage, 1990]. Briefly, wind profilers are Doppler radars that observe winds from Doppler shifts of “clear air” atmospheric echoes. The atmospheric echoes arise from backscattering from turbulent irregularities in the radio refractive index of the atmosphere. Wind profilers operate at several VHF and UHF frequencies, notably in the vicinity of 50, 405, and 915 MHz. Since they measure the radial component of the wind, they can be used to monitor vertical as well as horizontal motions by using antennas phased to look sequentially in several directions. ©1990. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
Start page
1851
End page
1854
Volume
71
Issue
50
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Sensores remotos
Ingeniería oceanográfica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0025594154
Source
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
ISSN of the container
00963941
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