@inbook{b55836607d974656a2523ffa84519640,
title = "Radar Wind Profiler",
abstract = "Radar wind profilers (RWPRadar Wind Profiler (RWP)s)Radar Wind Profiler (RWP) are meteorological radars that are used to determine the vertical profile of the wind vector in the atmosphere. RWPs typically use wavelengths ranging from about 20 cm to about 6 m. The scattering processes that occur at such wavelengths give these instruments a unique ability to obtain detectable echoes in both the optically clear, as well as in the particle-laden, atmosphere (i.e. in the presence of clouds, fog, or precipitation). The height coverage of RWPs varies, mainly due to the wavelength dependence of the clear air scattering process: boundary-layer RWPs (which operate at frequencies of around 1 GHz) typically probe the lowest 3 {\textendash} 5 km of the atmosphere, while (markedly larger) systems in the 50 MHz band can provide data on the atmospheric region up to about 20 km above the ground.",
keywords = "Doppler system, boundary-layer radar, frequency domain, polarization, radar wind profiler, scattering, time domain, tropospheric radar",
author = "Volker Lehmann and William Brown",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-52171-4\_31",
language = "English",
series = "Springer Handbooks",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "901--933",
booktitle = "Springer Handbooks",
address = "Germany",
}