P5.8 Development of a New C-band Bistatic Polarimetric Radar and Observation of Typhoon Events
P5.8 Development of a New C-band Bistatic Polarimetric Radar and Observation of Typhoon Events
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P5.8 新型C波段双基地偏振雷达研制及台风事件观测
DOI:
10.1175/mwr3273.1
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
N. Takahashi
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作者:
K. Nakagawa;H. Hanado;S. Satoh;N. Takahashi
1. INTRODUCTION Each year in Japan, precipitation phenomena-such as localized torrential rain, typhoons, and heavy snow-inundate homes, cause mudslides, and damage crops. These natural disasters lead to loss of life and destroy valuable property. Such precipitation events are typical examples of meso-scale atmospheric phenomena, which occur on scales ranging from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers and last from several minutes to several days. The precipitation radar is a remote-sensing instrument that can be used to instantaneously and continuously observe an extremely wide area (with a radius of several hundred kilometers) from a single point on the ground. Therefore, it represents an effective tool in monitoring and understanding the mechanisms of such meso-scale phenomena. A conventional precipitation radar emits radio waves from the ground toward the sky and then receives the backscattered signals. The precipitation intensity can be derived from the intensity of the received signal. Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) has developed a new C-band multi-parameter Doppler radar system with a bistatic Doppler radar network. This new radar is named COBRA (CRL Okinawa bistatic polarimetric radar). The weather targets of the system are typhoons, Baiu-frontal rainfall, meso-scale precipitation in subtropical zones, and clear-air turbulence. Our goal is to utilize COBRA in developing meso-scale meteorological and hydrological observation applications to support commercial weather forecasting and data collection for disaster prevention purposes. The COBRA system features a main radar with polarization measurement functions to enable detailed observation of the polarization characteristics of precipitation particles. It also employs a bistatic radar networkó specifically, a network of receivers for observing oblique scattering from precipitation particles. Fig. 1 shows the locations of all the equipment in COBRA. The main radar is located at the Nago precipitation radar facility in Nago, Okinawa (CRL Nago). The bistatic receiver stations are located at the Ogimi wind profiler facility (CRL Ogimi) and at CRL Okinawa. The two bistatic radar stations are connected to CRL Nago by a dedicated line with a throughput of 128 kbps, while CRL Nago and CRL Okinawa are also linked by a dedicated line operating at 100 Mbps. CRL Nago is unmanned; it is remotely controlled and monitored from CRL Okinawa.