Weather Radars in the US ---- An Overview and Their Applications Cai Huaqing National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO.

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Weather Radars in the US ---- An Overview and Their Applications Cai Huaqing National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO

RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) Conventional weather radar: measures intensity and position of precipitation Doppler weather radar: intensity, position and speed Polarimetric radar: intensity, position, speed, and particle shape UHF/VHF wind profiler: winds

Dual-Doppler Technique Radar 1 Radar 2 3D wind fields can be reconstructed through dual-Doppler technique

A List of Radars in This Talk WSR-88Ds S-POL DOWs U-Mass Tornado Radar NOAA P3 Airborne Doppler Radars ELDORA Cloud Radar TRMM Radar New Radars Under Development

Operational Radars for National Weather Service (NWS) ---- WSR-88D 10 cm Wavelength Clear Air/Convective Mode

WSR-88D National Mosaic

NCAR S-Band Polarization Radar (S-POL) Transportable 10 cm Wavelength Dual-Polarization

Doppler on Wheels (DOW) Fully Mobile 3 cm Wavelength Clear Air Capability High Resolution (25 m)

Radar Reflectivity of a Tornado Viewed by DOW Tornado Eye

U-MASS Tornado Radar Pencil Beam 3 mm Wavelength

NOAA P3 Airborne Doppler Radars 3 cm Wavelength, Fore/Aft Scan, Dual-PRF

Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA) Mounted on NRL P3 ELDORA Antenna

Unique Capabilities of ELDORA 300 m along-track resolution High sensitivity for clear air capability Large unambiguous velocity (~ 80 m/s) as a result of dual-PRF technique Has been in service for more than 10 years, still the most advanced airborne Doppler radar in the world

ELDORA Specifications

ELDORA Airborne Doppler Radar

A Typical Supercell Viewed by ELDORA

A Tornado Viewed by ELDORA

University of Wyoming Cloud Radar

University of Wyoming KingAir

What Can You See Through a Cloud Radar

Space-Borne Radar

Field Projects Using Radars

NRL P3 2 NOAA P3s AF C-130 NOAA G-IV

Hurricane Katrina (NOAA P3 LF Radar Image) P3 Eyewall

Hurricane Katrina Eyewall (photographed by F. Roux) Eyewall

IHOP-2002

IHOP Instruments

New Developments of Radar Technology in the US Rapid scan DOW Phased-array weather radars Dual-polarization on WSR-88Ds Radar refractivity for measuring water vapor in the surface layer Dual-wave length radars (adding k-band on NCAR S-POL radar) Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of Atmosphere (CASA, mini-radars on cell phone towers)

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