EVALUATION OF METEOROLOGICAL AIRBORNE DOPPLER. PART I: DUAL DOPPLER ANALYSIS OF AIR MOTION.

Abstract

Recent interest in airborne Doppler radar has resulted from the anticipated ability of the airborne Doppler radar to transcend some of the problems of the ground-based radars. Planned studies of large scale storm systems have presented a clear need for highly mobile Doppler radars both for the purpose of making observations at locations where there are no ground-based Doppler radars and for making observations in direction which are frequently inconvenient for ground-based radars. The collection and analysis of dual Doppler data using dual airborne Doppler data, and using combinations of airborne and ground-based Doppler data.