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This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospherix phenomena such as tornados, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doviak, R. J.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Zrnić, Dušan S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1993.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Radar meteorology > Observations.
Doppler radar.
Radarmétéorologie > Observations.
Radar Doppler.
Doppler radar
Radar meteorology
Meteorologia.
Doppler, Effet.
Météorologie.
Electronic books.
Observations
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospherix phenomena such as tornados, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning. Radar images and photographs of these weather phenomena are included.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 562 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-545) and index.
ISBN:9781483294827
148329482X