THE PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE OF RADAR ECHOES OVER AREAS OF ARBITRARY SIZE,

Abstract

Statistical data on weather echoes detected by ground-based radars are becoming available. The area of detectability of a radar may be of the order of 10,000 square miles. A method was developed for finding the amount of time these echoes will spend over a smaller sub-area of arbitrary size. The method utilizes the echo-size probability function, a steering-wind probability function and an assumption of the independence of echo size and echo speed. Illustrations are given for an X-band radar. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 16, 1957
Accession Number
AD0657153

Entities

People

  • Isadore Katz

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Ground Based
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Statistical Data
  • Steering
  • X Band

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.