DOPPLER RADAR LECTURE NOTES

Index of Topics

• Please review the material at: http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/courses/dloc/topic3/lesson2/player.html
• Introduction to Doppler - the Doppler shift | Also Ch 6
• Review of waves
• Phase of a wave
• Distance traveled by wave
• Pulse-pair Method
• Doppler radar block diagram
• Nyquist interval
• Nyquist interval, continued
• Velocity folding
• Relationship between Vmax and Ru
• Single-Doppler velocity interpretation:
  • introduction to single-Doppler velocity interpretation
  • single-Doppler velocity interpretation - beam location above ground
  • vertical wind profiles - speed shear
  • vertical wind profiles - low-level jet
  • vertical wind profiles - veering
  • vertical wind profiles - backing
  • vertical wind profiles - veering and backing
  • vertical wind profiles - shear line
  • vertical wind profiles - convergence
  • vertical wind profiles - divergence
  • convergence/divergence
  • rotation
• Doppler Power spectra - Introduction
• Spectral Width | Also Ch 7
• VADs - Introduction
• VADs - Continued
• Big/Small Cones
• Dual-Doppler data | Also Dual-Doppler Processing in Ch10
• Dual Doppler Geometry
• Dual Doppler Lobes and examples
• Doppler concepts

last updated: 01/31/00