The Platteville Radar Profiler as a Meteorological and Communications Engineering Tool.

Abstract

The basic operating principles and capabilities of the VHF pulsed Doppler radar located at Platteville, Colorado are discussed. Examples of horizontal and vertical wind speed measurements are presented, and the meteorological uses of these data are briefly outlined. The radar backscattered power is used to compute the refractivity turbulence structure constant. New results on the variability of the refractivity turbulence structure constant from about 5-15 km are given. Especially interesting is the large diurnal change of the constant in the upper atmosphere.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119172

Entities

People

  • Gregory D. Nastrom

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Analysis
  • Distribution Functions
  • Diurnal Variations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Meteorology
  • Probability
  • Radio Communications
  • Scattering
  • Turbulence
  • Wind
  • Wind Shear
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Spectroscopy.