India Meteorological Department has entered into a new era in exploring the atmosphere with the induction of state-of-the-art Doppler weather radar technology in its cyclone detection radar network. This article describes the salient features of the Doppler weather radar installed at Chennai. Use of Doppler technique combined with digital technology makes it possible to measure directly the win...

[1] Vertically pointing Doppler radar has been used to study the evolution of ice particles as they sediment through a cirrus cloud. The measured Doppler fall speeds, together with radar-derived estimates for the altitude of cloud top, are used to estimate a characteristic fall time tc for the ‘average’ ice particle. The change in radar reflectivity Z is studied as a function of tc, and is foun...

In this paper the problem of retrieving wind field information from Doppler radar data motivates the formulation of a method to design radar network configurations. The problem of estimating wind velocities from radar data is posed and used to construct a certain retrieval operator. This operator contains a factor that may be interpreted as an uncertainty multiplier. It depends on the geometry ...

This paper gives a detailed analysis of the physics of simple pendulum and the equations governing the motion and velocity. The pendulum works in three modes: simple, damped and driving and driving only. The signatures are evaluated and simulated by the means of four different approaches: Euler method, Euler-Cromer method, 2 nd order Runge-kutta method and built-in ODE-23 matlab solver. The sim...

Doppler radar provides repetitive, short-term atmospheric reflection data, obtained from returns of pulsed radar. When plotted as time-base cells or points, Doppler data can be converted to equivalent rainfall, typically over five-minute intervals. ArcGIS facilitates selection and interpolation of short interval data to create multiple or summarized precipitation grids. This paper presents the ...

We have developed a new parameter estimation method for Doppler wind spectra in the mesosphere observed with an MST radar such as the MU radar in the DBS (Doppler Beam Swinging) mode. Off-line incoherent integration of the Doppler spectra is carried out with a new algorithm excluding contamination by strong meteor echoes. At the same time, initial values on a least square fitting of the Gaussia...

In this article, a novel bicepstrum-based approach is suggested for ground moving radar target classification. Distinctive classification features were extracted from short-time backscattering bispectrum estimates of the micro-Doppler signature. Real radar data were obtained using surveillance Doppler microwave radar operating at 34 GHz. Classifier performance was studied in detail using the Ga...

CLUTTER DETECTION IN PULSE-DOPPLER RADAR SYSTEMS Ahmet Güngör M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan Gezici August 2010 Among various types of radar systems, the pulse-Doppler radar is the most widely used one, especially in military applications. Pulse Doppler radars have a primary objective to detect and estimate the range and the radial velocity of...