An Application of an Indirect Interaction Frequency Shift: Atmospheric Temperature Profiles from Radar Backscatter from Mature Storms

Abstract

A novel parametric interaction is discussed and exemplified. The interaction theory is treated in quite general terms. An example is chosen from remote sensing. The remote sensing measurement proposed seeks to extract temperature profile information from microwave radiation scattered from mature storm clouds. Sound waves emanating from thunderclaps or other sources can provide a traveling acoustic field, which distorts the shapes of the hydrometers and so creates a shape-dependent electrical polarizability which moves progressively through the storm cloud. It is shown that the modulation extracted from the microwave carrier contains temperature profile information.