Spaceborne Doppler radars for atmospheric dynamics and energy budget studies

Author

Tanelli, Simone ; Im, E. ; Durden, Stephen L. ; Giuli, Dino ; Facheris, Luca

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The successful deployments of the first spaceborne precipitation radar (TRMM/PR Ku-band, 1997 ) and spaceborne cloud radar (CloudSat/CPR W-band, 2006 ) have demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring atmospheric processes from space with vertical resolutions of a few hundred meters. Future missions being implemented (EarthCARE, W-band ) or envisaged (ACE, Ka- and W-band ) include use of coherent detection to measure the first moment of the Doppler spectrum to observe and analyze the dynamics of atmospheric systems. In this talk we discuss the main challenges and potentials of measuring the Doppler velocity of clouds and precipitation from space.

Keywords

Doppler radar; atmospheric techniques; spaceborne radar; Doppler velocity; atmospheric dynamics; atmospheric processes monitoring; spaceborne Doppler radars; spaceborne cloud radar; spaceborne precipitation radar; Airborne radar; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Clouds; Doppler radar; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Power measurement; Spaceborne radar; Velocity measurement; Clouds and Precipitation; Doppler Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721127

Filename

4721127