Title :
A solid state W-band radar profiler for cloud observation
Author :
D. Klugmann;H. Wang;S. Rea;B. P. Moyna;M. Oldfield;P. G. Huggard;B. N. Ellison
Author_Institution :
Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space Department, Millimetre Wave Technology Group, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK
Abstract :
Millimetre wave radar has been successfully applied in cloud research for a number of decades. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) has developed a 94 GHz radar based on solid state components and operated in Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) mode. The approach for improving the RF design - including the implementation of Doppler capability - and the results of this activity will be presented.
Keywords :
"Doppler radar","Radio frequency","Clouds","Doppler effect","Meteorology","Attenuators"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327834
