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)

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 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