International Weather Radar Networking: Final Seminar of the COST Project 73 [Hardcover]

International Weather Radar Networking covers all aspects of the subject in a collection of contributions drawn from all over the world. Of particular interest are the papers describing work in Eastern Europe and papers reviewing of the achievements of the Commission of the European Communities COST-73 project.
During the last twenty years there has been a rapid growth in the number of digital radars deployed for operational use in Western Europe. There are now around 100, of which about half have a Doppler capability, providing wind as well as reflectivity information. The international exchange of the data from these systems promises a great enhancement of the benefits to weather forecasting and commercial users.
This volume reports work being undertaken to realize those benefits and points the way to future developments of radar technology.
List of Contents.- Session 1: Introduction.- Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation.- Ministry of University and Research, COST Senior Official of the Republic of Italy.- COST Senior Official Yugoslavaia.- What is COST?.- COST-73  An Example of European Cooperation: Objectives and Organization of Work in the Project.- Session 2: Radar Systems and Precipitation Measurement.- Radar Measurement and Quality.- Using DSP32C Floating Point Signal Processor as a Radar Video Processor to Build a Modification Kit for Convential Analog Weather Radar.- On the Importance of Noise Figure in Reflectivity Radars.- Operational Radar Measurements of Rainfall: The Accuracy of Point Estimates of Rainfall Rate.- Progressive Method of Precipitation and Its Applications.- Use of Operational Radar Images for Investigations of Convective cells.- Operational Use of Doppler Radar in Veneto Region  Italy.- Analytic Method for Radar Horizon Computation.- Session 3: Telecommunications and displays.- Report by the Cost Project & Telecommunications Working Party.- l35