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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Année : 2009

RONSARD Radar: Implementation of Dual Polarization on a C-Band Doppler Weather Radar

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The French C-band meteorological Doppler radar Recherche sur les Orages et Nuages par un Systeme Associe de Radars Doppler (RONSARD) was recently equipped with dual polarization. This modification required, on the one hand, an additional receiver and, on the other hand, a new design for the antenna geometry in order to decrease strongly the sidelobe level. This new radar configuration allows us to choose between two complementary modes: (1) the previous single-polarization mode, still preserved with fast Fourier transform calculations of the first three momentums of the Doppler spectrum, i.e., horizontal (H) reflectivity, radial wind velocity, and wind velocity variance calculated both in precipitation areas and clear air areas (depending on the gate), and (2) the dual-polarization mode with pulse pair processing of H and vertical reflectivities and velocities, differential phase shift, and coherence coefficient. Moreover, both modes work over contiguous gates along each direction, allowing fine radial range resolution. Thanks to the flexibility between these two modes, the RONSARD radar becomes a new major facility aimed at studying the dynamics-microphysics interactions within precipitation and their environment.

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Météorologie
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hal-00352951 , version 1 (14-01-2009)

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Georges Scialom, Jacques Faroux, Manuel Giraud, Richard Ney, Raquel Evaristo, et al.. RONSARD Radar: Implementation of Dual Polarization on a C-Band Doppler Weather Radar. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2009, 6 (1), pp.132-136. ⟨10.1109/LGRS.2008.2008318⟩. ⟨hal-00352951⟩
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