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1. Basic principles of weather radar systems

This is a subject fairly well covered by existing textbooks. This chapter is considered as Background knowledge.
-  1.1 Fields of meteorological applications (general overview)

-  1.2 Principles of electromagnetic fields

-  1.3 Radar Bands (C, S, X)

-  1.4 Block diagram

-  1.5 The Radar Transmitter & Receiver

-  1.6 Antenna, radome and beam

-  1.7 Radar equation (Dusan), Z+C

-  1.8 Principles of Doppler measurements (hw and sw)

Material to this section is available through:
-  Laurent Delobbe: animations, PowerPoint presentations and case study material
-  Iwan Hollemann: PowerPoint presentations
-  Roger Deslandes: animations, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes and case study material
-  Wilfried Jacobs: animations, PowerPoint presentations, case study material and other
-  Urs Germann: animations, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes and other
-  Evelyn Murphy: PowerPoint presentations
-  Uta Gjertsen: PowerPoint presentations
-  A.J. Illingworth: PowerPoint presentations and other
-  Paul Joe: animations, PowerPoint presentations and case study material
-  R.J. Keeler: PowerPoint presentations and other
-  Martin Hagen: PowerPoint presentations and quizzes
-  Peter Rodriguez: case study material and other
-  Frederic Fabry: animations and other
-  Günther Haase: PowerPoint presentations

Updated: Tuesday 19 August 2008