| contributor author | Brown, Rodger A. | |
| contributor author | Wood, Vincent T. | |
| contributor author | Sirmans, Dale | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T14:58:41Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T14:58:41Z | |
| date copyright | 2000/04/01 | |
| date issued | 2000 | |
| identifier issn | 0882-8156 | |
| identifier other | ams-3114.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4168557 | |
| description abstract | The Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) is an important operational and research tool for detecting and monitoring convective storms. Two scanning strategies, or volume coverage patterns, VCP 11 and 21, are used in storm situations. Users find that these original VCPs do not always provide the vertical or temporal resolution that is desired. To help solve these resolution problems, a procedure is proposed for developing optimized and flexible VCPs. A VCP is optimized when the maximum height uncertainty (expressed in percent of true height) is essentially the same at all ranges and for all heights of storm features. A VCP becomes flexible when the volume scan terminates and recycles after it tilts above all radar return or reaches a specified elevation angle. Two sample VCPs, which are optimized and flexible, are presented, and simulated radar data show that they perform better than the current VCPs. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | Improved WSR-88D Scanning Strategies for Convective Storms | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 15 | |
| journal issue | 2 | |
| journal title | Weather and Forecasting | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0434(2000)015<0208:IWSSFC>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 208 | |
| journal lastpage | 220 | |
| tree | Weather and Forecasting:;2000:;volume( 015 ):;issue: 002 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext | |