Title Statements
- Full title :Atmospheric Radar.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
Notes
3.8.4 Random electron position.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (856 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781316556115, 1316556115
- oclc:ocn963585122
- LC Classification:QC973.5
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 An overview of the atmosphere; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The origins of radar; 1.3 The atmosphere -- an overview; 1.3.1 The Earth's neutral atmosphere and ionosphere; 1.3.2 Causes of the temperature and density structures; 1.3.3 Radiative transfer in the troposphere and greenhouse warming; 1.3.4 Variability and atmospheric circulation; 1.3.5 Atmospheric circulation in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere; 1.3.6 Synoptic and mesoscale flows; 1.4 Some important thermodynamics and statics; 1.4.1 Introduction.
1.4.2 Pressure as a function of height1.4.3 Adiabatic expansion; 1.4.4 Adiabatic lapse rate; 1.4.5 Brunt-Väisälä frequency; 1.4.6 Potential temperature; 1.4.7 Atmospheric stability and the Richardson number; 2 The history of radar in atmospheric investigations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Meteorological radar; 2.3 Doppler methods in radar meteorology; 2.4 Ionospheric history pertaining to MST radar; 2.5 D-region studies with MF and HF radar; 2.6 Meteor physics with radar; 2.7 Incoherent scatter radars; 2.7.1 Coherent echoes seen with incoherent scatter radars.
2.8 MST radar techniques at VHF and s…
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