Wind Profiling of Stormy and Quiescent Atmospheres with Microwave Radars

摘要

The report investigates the feasibility of measuring winds in the lower atmosphere with microwave Doppler radars. It is assumed that natural scatterers such as hydrometeors and/or refractive index irregularities are the only ones present. Thus, techniques based on tracking balloons or on obtaining echo from chaff are not considered. A technique to obtain environmental winds from measurements in isolated storms observed with a single radar is examined. Results are compared with those from two radars and from nearby rawinsondes.