This is a subject fairly well covered by existing textbooks. This chapter is considered as Background knowledge.
2.1 Geometry and its limits
- We live on a ball
- Propagation in the atmosphere: sub fraction...
- Volume scanning: concepts of azimuth, elevation, range: elevation-range-height diagram
2.2. Products
- Dictionary from OPERA deliverables
- PPI, CAPPI, Max, PseudoCAPPI, RHI, X-sect, echo-top, accumulation-precipitation ...
- maximum range depending on radar site and blockage
Material to this section is available through:
- Laurent Delobbe: animations, PowerPoint presentations and case study material
- Iwan Hollemann: PowerPoint presentations
- 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
- Martin Hagen: PowerPoint presentations and quizzes
- Peter Rodriguez: case study material and other
- Frederic Fabry: animations and other
- Günther Haase: PowerPoint presentations
- Niels Einar Jensen: animations and PowerPoint presentations
