Doppler Radar & Weather Observations

This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospherix phenomena such as tornados, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning. Radar images and photographs of these weather phenomena are included.Polarimetric measurements and data processingAn updated section on RASSWind profilersObservations with the WSR-88DAn updated treatment of lightningTurbulence in the planetary boundary layerA short history of radarChapter problem sets