CONVENTIONAL RADAR LECTURE NOTES

Index of Topics

• Introduction to conventional radar- Pulsed radar system | Also all of Ch1 except section on Radars used in Aviation
• Common frequency bands used by meteorological radars | Also Electromagnetic Spectrum in Ch3
• Pulsed radar system - transmitting and receiving | Also Ch2 | focus on Transmitter, Antenna, and Receiver
• Range Folding
• Second Trip Echo Detection
• Radar Nomenclature
• Display Systems - PPI
• Display Systems - RHI
• dB scale
• Radar Equation for single target - Introduction | Also Ch4 material on spherical point targets
• 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 | Also Ch 6
• Rayleigh and Mie Scattering
• Attenuation - Introduction | also accompanying material in Ch 8
• Attenuation factor in radar equation
• Attenuation in the data
• Rainfall estimation with radar
• Z-R relationships | also accompanying material in Ch 8
• Bright Bands | also accompanying material in Ch 8
• Differential Reflectivity | Also polarization diversity in Ch 10
• Clear-air data | Also Ch9
• What creates thin lines?
• Anomalous Propagation
• The Hail Spike

Conventional Radar Key Concepts

Dual Pol Questions

last updated: 01/02/02