The ELDORA/ASTRAIA airborne Doppler weather radar: results from recent field tests

Author

Hildebrand, Peter H. ; Walther, Craig ; Lee, Wen-Chau

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Atmos. Res., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

11

Issue

10

fYear

1996

fDate

10/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

37

Abstract

The ELDORA/ASTRAIA airborne Doppler weather radar was recently placed in service by US and French atmospheric sciences research laboratories. The ELDORA/ASTRAIA radar is designed to provide high resolution measurements of the air motion and rainfall characteristics of atmospheric storms which are too large, remote or fast-moving to be adequately observed by ground-based radars. This paper discusses the measurement requirements and the design goals of the radar and presents sample measurements from a recent weather research field program

Keywords

Doppler radar; airborne radar; geophysical signal processing; meteorological radar; radar signal processing; rain; remote sensing by radar; signal sampling; storms; ELDORA/ASTRAIA; TWT-based X-band transmitter; X-band radar; air motion; airborne Doppler weather radar; atmospheric storms; design goals; dual-Doppler system; field tests; high resolution measurements; high scan rate sampling; rainfall characteristics; signal processing; velocity unfolding; Airborne radar; Frequency; Meteorological radar; Power measurement; Radar measurements; Sampling methods; Spatial resolution; Storms; Testing; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.538800

Filename

538800