Radar meteorology : a first course /
by Robert M. Rauber, Dr. Stephen W. Nesbitt.
- First edition. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Advancing weather and climate science series .
Properties of electromagnetic waves -- Radar hardware -- Radar characteristics -- The path of a radar ray -- Power and the radar reflectivity factor -- Radial velocity?the doppler effect -- Dual polarization radar -- Clean air echoes -- Propagation effects : attenuation and refractivity -- Operational radar networks -- Doppler velocity patterns and single radar wind retrieval -- Multiple doppler wind retreival -- Precipitation esitmation with radar -- Warm season convection -- Extratropical cyclones -- Tropical cyclones -- Clouds and vertical motions.