CONVENTIONAL RADAR LECTURE NOTES

Index of Topics

• Introduction to conventional radar- Pulsed radar system
• Common frequency bands used by meteorological radars
• Pulsed radar system - transmitting and receiveing
• Range Folding
• Second Trip Echo Detection
• Radar Nomenclature
• Display Systems - PPI
• Display Systems - RHI
• dB scale
• Radar Equation for single target - Introduction
• Continuation of radar equation derivation for point targets
• Side Lobe Echoes
• Elimination and detection of side lobes
• The Pulse Volume
• Radar Equation for distributed targets
• Rayleigh and Mie Scattering
• Attenuation - Introduction
• Attenuation factor in radar equation
• Attenuation in the data
• Rainfall estimation with radar
• Z-R relationships
• Bright Bands
• Differential Reflectivity
• Clear-air data
• What creates thin lines?
• Anomalous Propagation
• The Hail Spike

Conventional Radar Key Concepts

last updated: 01/02/02