Velocity-Based EDR Retrieval Techniques Applied to Doppler Radar Measurements from Rain: Two Case Studies

In this article, five velocity-based energy dissipation rate (EDR) retrieval techniques are assessed. The EDR retrieval techniques are applied to Doppler measurements from Transportable Atmospheric Radar (TARA)—a precipitation profiling radar—operating in the vertically fixed-pointing mode. A generalized formula for the Kolmogorov constant is...

Spectral Polarimetric Features Analysis of Wind Turbine Clutter in Weather Radar

Wind turbine clutter has gradually become a concern for the radar community for its increasing size and quantity worldwide. Based on the S-band polarimetric Doppler PARSAX radar measurements, this paper demonstrates the micro-Doppler features and spectral-polarimetric characteristic of wind turbine clutter, the probability distribution functions...

Turbulence intensity retrieval in precipitation via optimal estimation using polarimetric radar (poster)

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) models are compared, with respect to optimization of turbulence remote sensing. HIT models have different applications such as load calculation for wind turbines (Mann, 1998) or droplet track modelling (Pinsky and Khain, 2006). Details of vortices seem of less relevance for modelling `realistic measurements...

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) models are compared, with respect to optimization of turbulence remote sensing. HIT models have different applications such as load calculation for wind turbines (Mann, 1998) or droplet track modelling (Pinsky and Khain, 2006). Details of vortices seem of less relevance for modelling `realistic measurements...

Exploitation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence models for optimization of turbulence remote sensing

Comparison of everything with everything (CEWE) at the CESAR site: An update of TARA CEWE for assessing the applicability of contemporary EDR retrievals for precipitation profiling Doppler radar

Optimization of turbulence measurements for radar, lidar and sonic anemometers

Simulation of atmospheric turbulence: Fractal turbulence (poster)

Simulation of atmospheric turbulence measurements: Fractal turbulence (poster)

A new trend is to observe atmospheric turbulence fields by using scanning Doppler radars and/or lidars. See e.g. Chan (2011) for the retrieval of eddy dissipation rate (EDR) maps at the Hongkong International Airport.