Overview

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.

Contents

Radar images and photographs of these weather phenomena are included.

Polarimetric measurements and data processing

An updated section on RASS

Wind profilers

Observations with the WSR-88D

An updated treatment of lightning

Turbulence in the planetary boundary layer

A short history of radar

Chapter problem sets