X- and W-band mobile Doppler radar observations from VORTEX2 and current developments

Author

Frasier, S.J. ; Venkatesh, V. ; Orzel, K. ; Hartley, T. ; Salazar, J. ; Medina, R. ; Knapp, E. ; Ibe, O. ; Bluestein, H.B. ; Snyder, J. ; Tanamachi, R.

Author_Institution

Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

23-27 May 2011

Firstpage

774

Lastpage

777

Abstract

Over the past several years, UMass has developed and deployed two mobile Doppler radars for severe storm research. One is a W-band (95 GHz) Doppler radar that is used for fine-scale observations of tornadic features. It features a very narrow (0.18°) beamwidth. The other is a dual-polarized X-band Doppler radar used for coarser scale observations and polarimetric measurements for scatterer identification, and precipitation estimation. We show sample observations by these systems obtained during the 2009 and 2010 VORTEX2 experiments. UMass is presently developing a dual-polarized, solid-state, phased-array radar.

Keywords

Doppler radar; atmospheric precipitation; meteorological radar; storms; W-band mobile Doppler radar observations VORTEX2; X-band mobile Doppler radar observations; dual-polarized X-band Doppler radar; precipitation estimation; scatterer identification; severe storm research; Arrays; Doppler radar; Meteorological radar; Mobile communication; Radar antennas; Tornadoes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (RADAR), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8901-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960642

Filename

5960642