Technical aspects of a new S-band atmospheric profiler

Author

Heijnen, S.H. ; van der Zwan, W.F. ; Ligthart, L.P.

Author_Institution

International Research center for Telecommunications-Transmission and Radar, TU-Delft, PO Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 15 278 7544, Fax: +31 15 278 4046, E-mail: S.H.Heijnen@its.tudelft.nl

fYear

2001

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2001

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A Transportable Atmospheric RAdar, TARA, has been developed at the International Research Centre for Telecommunications-transmission and Radar, IRCTR. State of the art but commercially available technology has been integrated to build a sensitive, versatile research radar primarily intended for atmospheric research. The system is based on the FM-CW principle and is fully solid-state. This yields improved system lifetime in comparison to tube-based systems. The antennas are dual linearly polarized for polarimetric applications. Multiple beams at 15Â° offset in two orthogonal directions in combination with the Doppler capabilities of the system are used for measuring three-dimensional wind fields. In this paper attention is paid to the technical realization of the system and some measurements are shown using the Doppler and multi-beam capabilities.

Keywords

Antenna measurements; Clutter; Doppler radar; Feeds; Frequency; Particle scattering; Polarization; Radar antennas; Radar scattering; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2001. 31st European

Conference_Location

London, England

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.2001.339040

Filename

4140108