Title
CLAIRE: An UHF wind profiler radar for turbulence and precipitation studies
Date Issued
12 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Due to diverse and extreme weather conditions, the Peruvian population is vulnerable to high-impact natural disasters. A continuous monitoring of all weather conditions is necessary for accurate weather models, forecast, and nowcast along the territory. To cope with this problem, the Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO) is developing a low-cost, portable CLear AIr and Rainfall Estimations (CLAIRE) Radar that will provide tropospheric winds, turbulence, and rainfall estimations that will help analyze and quantify meteorological phenomena. CLAIRE consists of four Yagi-Uda antenna phased arrays, one for transmission and three for reception, arranged in a quasimonostatic system. The 445-MHz CLAIRE system is sensitive to both clear-air and precipitation echoes. The aim is to separate the two types of echoes through spectral analysis and process them independently. For the wind and turbulence measurements, Spaced Antenna technique will be applied, while precipitation measurements will be obtained by analyzing the corresponding radar reflectivity factor (Ze).
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85013277059
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 23rd International Congress on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2016
ISBN of the container
978-150901340-1
Conference
23rd IEEE International Congress on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2016
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the personal of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory for their support through the development of these project. This research is partially funded by INNÓVATE PERÚ (387-PNICP-PIAP-2014) whose support is gratefully acknowledged. The Jicamarca Radio Observatory is a facility of the Instituto Geofísico del Perú operated with support from the NSF AGS-1433968 through Cornell University.
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