Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator

Author

Lischi, S. ; Lupidi, A. ; Martorella, Marco ; Cuccoli, F. ; Facheris, L. ; Baldini, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The Advanced Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar Simulator (APDWRS) capable of generating I&Q time series voltages for a ground based fully-polarimetric Doppler weather radar is described in this paper. The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model is used in conjunction with the T-Matrix code to generate radar signals according to the propagation-modified covariance matrix. Mixtures of rain, hail, graupel and snow hydrometeors relative to a realistic weather phenomenon are considered. The polarimetric and Doppler observables estimated from the simulated radar signals showed a good agreement with those found in previous observations.

Keywords

Doppler radar; covariance matrices; ice; meteorological radar; radar polarimetry; radar signal processing; rain; snow; weather forecasting; APDWRS; T-Matrix code; WRF; advanced polarimetric Doppler weather radar simulator; covariance matrix; radar signal generation; weather research and forecast model; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Radar antennas; Radar polarimetry; T-Matrix; WRF; Weather radar; radar polarimetry; radar simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2014 15th International

Conference_Location

Gdansk

Print_ISBN

978-617-607-552-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2014.6869252

Filename

6869252