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Short Course: Radar Meteorology

Fundamentals, observations, and signal processing

This course covers the fundamental principles of modern weather radars with emphasis on observations and signal processing.

Prerequisites

The material for this course was especially developed for meteorologists, engineers, and/or technicians who may not have any previous knowledge of weather radars.

To prepare for this course, students should download the course materials using the link provided at the bottom of this page. Students are also encouraged to bring a calculator to facilitate active participation in the different activities.

Schedule

Ideally, this course is taught in 5 days, but adjustments can be made to reduce its length.

Topics

Fundamentals of radar meteorology
The NEXRAD network
Doppler radar: theory and observations
Polarimetric radar: theory and observations
Scanning strategies
Fundamentals of weather-radar signal processing
Advanced signal processing techniques

Techniques for quality control
Techniques for range-and-velocity ambiguity mitigation
Techniques to reduce scan times
Techniques to suppress non-meteorological echoes
Techniques to improve the spatial resolution

Calibration
Typical wavelengths
The future of weather radars

Material

Available to course attendees.

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ARRC team receives second NSF award to investigate tonado debris

We recently received a second award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for our research project "Understanding the Relationship Between Tornadoes and Debris Through Observed and Simulated Radar Data."

NEXRAD class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

This fall, I had the honor and privilege to teach an OLLI class with my friend and colleague Jami Boettcher. "NEXRAD Weather Radar: How it Works and What Those Images Tell Us" kept us busy for 5 weeks this fall.

Paper makes the cover of IEEE journal

Our paper "Bootstrap Dual-Polarimetric Spectral Density Estimator" made the cover of the April 2017 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal.

JTECH Associate Editor

I have accepted to serve as an associate editor for the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Outstanding Service Award

I have been chosen as the winner of the 2016 OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service.