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

摘要

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 metorological uses of these data are briefly outlined. The radar backscattered power is used to compute the refractivity turbulence stucture 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.