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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 56, 期 5, 页码 2722-2734出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2782480
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Meteorological radar; phased arrays; radar polarimetry
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- National Science Foundation through the University of Massachusetts Amherst [AGS-1318148]
A dual-polarized X-band solid-state 1-D electronic scanning phase-tilt weather radar (PTWR) and its scanning geometry are presented. In this architecture, the true elevation angle decreases from the nominal array tilt angle and the true azimuth angle increases from the requested azimuth as one scans off boresight. Additionally, this scanning geometry induces a canting angle effect, which can be significant especially at higher elevation tilts. The predictions of potential biases in selected polarimetric variables due to this effect are derived. For elevation angles below 10 degrees, where polarimetric measurements are of most value, predicted biases are negligible. The PTWR was deployed in Arlington, TX, USA, for an eight-week period during Spring 2014 collecting data on a number of weather events. The direct proximity (250 m away) of a mechanically scanning magnetron-based radar, employing a dual-polarized parabolic antenna allowed for a qualitative and quantitative data comparison. We find the differences in the observations made by the two radar systems are not attributable to the aforementioned biases, but appear primarily due to differences in sampling volumes of the two radars. We also find that at high-elevation tilts, the coupling of the true elevation angle with the array-relative azimuth scan angle complicates the interpretation of features at a constant altitude such as the melting layer.
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