Initial observation results for precipitation on the Ku-band broadband radar network

Author

Yoshikawa, Eiichi ; Yoshida, Satoru ; Morimoto, Takeshi ; Ushio, Tomoo ; Kawasaki, Zen ; Mega, Tomoaki

Author_Institution

Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3991

Lastpage

3994

Abstract

A radar network with several Ku-band broadband radars (BBR), which are short-range (15 km) and ground-based Doppler radar with remarkably high range and temporal resolution of about several meters and 1 min per volume scan, respectively, observes multi-directionally and simultaneously hazardous small-scale phenomena such as tornadoes and microbursts with high resolution and accuracy. In this paper, initial observation results of the BBR network are presented. Two BBRs observes significantly similar patterns of precipitation due to the high temporal resolution, and integrated reflectivity between the two BBRs showed impressively high quality images of precipitation.

Keywords

Doppler radar; atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric techniques; geophysical image processing; image resolution; meteorological radar; Ku-band broadband radar network; ground-based Doppler radar; hazardous small-scale phenomena; high quality image analysis; integrated reflectivity analysis; precipitation pattern; temporal resolution; Broadband antennas; Doppler radar; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Radar detection; Reflectivity; Meteorological radar network; high resolution; thunderstorm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050106

Filename

6050106