Title :
WREN: A weather radar experimental network
Author :
Gray, D.A. ; Viola, M. ; Moran, W. ; Samarasekera, S. ; May, P. ; Bates, B. ; Venkataraman, K. ; McCarroll, C. ; Ferguson, B. ; McLaughlin, D.
Author_Institution :
EEE Sch., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
Limitations to current long range weather radars include reduced coverage of the lower atmosphere, coarse cross range resolution and coarse temporal resolution due to the mechanical scanning. A proposed network of low cost, short range digital radars for monitoring hydrometeor phenomena is described and its potential benefit in providing lower atmospheric coverage is discussed. The benefits of replacing the scanning antenna at each node of the network with a phased array are also discussed.
Keywords :
hydrometers; meteorological radar; radar resolution; scanning antennas; WREN; atmospheric coverage; coarse cross range resolution; coarse temporal resolution; hydrometeor phenomena; long range weather radars; mechanical scanning; phased array; scanning antenna; short range digital radars; weather radar experimental network; Arrays; Australia; Doppler radar; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Radar antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7366-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEAA.2010.5653691
