A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

Weather radars

MR Kumjian - Remote sensing of clouds and precipitation, 2018 - Springer
Weather radar is the most indispensable tool for remote sensing of clouds and precipitation.
This chapter provides a conceptual overview of the principles of dual-polarization Doppler …

A quantitative analysis of the impact of wind turbines on operational Doppler weather radar data

L Norin - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
In many countries wind turbines are rapidly growing in numbers as the demand for energy
from renewable sources increases. The continued deployment of wind turbines can …

Sensitivity of convective initiation prediction to near-surface moisture when assimilating radar refractivity: Impact tests using OSSEs

NA Gasperoni, M Xue, RD Palmer… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) three-dimensional variational
(3DVAR) system is enhanced to include the analysis of radar-derived refractivity …

Refractivity and refractivity gradient estimation from radar phase data: A least squares based approach

RN López, B Sánchez-Rama, VS del Río… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tropospheric refractivity, related to temperature, pressure, and humidity, is an interesting
parameter for weather analysis, prediction, and study of climate trends. It has been shown to …

Radar-based refractivity maps using geostatistical interpolation

B Sánchez-Rama, RN López… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tropospheric refractivity, which is closely related to temperature, pressure, and relative
humidity, is a valuable parameter for weather forecasting and climate analysis. It has already …

[HTML][HTML] Improving radar refractivity retrieval by considering the change in the refractivity profile and the varying altitudes of ground targets

YC Feng, F Fabry… - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Improving Radar Refractivity Retrieval by Considering the Change in the Refractivity Profile and
the Varying Altitudes of Ground Targets in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology …

The effect of phase-correlated returns and spatial smoothing on the accuracy of radar refractivity retrievals

JC Nicol, AJ Illingworth - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Radar refractivity retrievals have the potential to accurately capture near-surface humidity
fields from the phase change of ground clutter returns. In practice, phase changes are very …

Offshore wind turbine clutter characteristics and identification in operational C‐band weather radar measurements

W Hall, MA Rico‐Ramirez… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this work is to update ground‐clutter classification methods in weather radar
rainfall measurements to more accurately identify clutter pixels from wind farms …

High temporal resolution refractivity retrieval from radar phase measurements

RN López, VS Río - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Knowledge of the spatial and temporal variability of near-surface water vapor is of great
importance to successfully model reliable radio communications systems and forecast …