Use of the AN/FPS-77 for quantitative weather radar measurements / Wilbur H. Paulsen.

A review is made of the assumptions that must be made in using a weather radar set for quantitative measurements of weather echoes. A simplified derivation is provided showing the relationship between the purely meteorological 'radar reflectivity factor' Z and the radar received power for...

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Main Author:	Paulsen, Wilbur H. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.)
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1968.
Series:	AFCRL ; 68-13. Instrumentation papers ; no. 137.
Subjects:	Weather radar networks. Backscattering. Rayleigh scattering. Radar meteorology.