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Surveillance Weather Radar 2000 AD
Surveillance Weather Radar 2000 AD
2000 AD
Weather Radar Technology-
Merits in Chronological Order
WSR-07PD
WSR-88D
WSR-57
Technology Developments
• Digital receivers
– Easy to achieve sampling rate higher than reciprocal
of pulse (oversampling)
• Versatile circuits for transmitter control
– Easy to phase code, to interleave PRTs (staggered
and other), to compress pulse
• Signal processing on general purpose
computers (PCs)
– Easy to program algorithms and analyze Doppler
spectra
Capability of the NSSL’s R&D
weather surveillance radar
• Doppler and Dual Polarization
• Phase coding of transmitted pulses
• Transmission of arbitrary non uniform pulse
sequence including staggered PRT
• Oversampling
– by a factor of 5 in Dual Polarization Mode
– By a factor of 10 in Single Polarization Mode
• Arbitrary scanning strategy (including RHI)
• Recording of time series data
Oversampling
Reflectivity
Long PRT
Phase Coding
10/08/02 15:11 GMT
Doppler Velocity Doppler Velocity
Phase coding, medium EL = 0.5 deg Processing as on WSR-88D
PRT
Reflectivity
Staggered PRT
Staggered PRT
KTLX Doppler Velocity 04/06/03 4:42 GMT KOUN Doppler Velocity
VCP 11 – Batch Mode EL = 2.5 deg Staggered PRT (184 km/276 km)
148 km
184 km