Table of contents
Fundamentals of radar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4
Radar resources ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Basic terms for viewing radar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7
Characteristics of Doppler radar --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9
Beam spreading -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10
Base reflectivity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11
Interesting things that can be seen with base reflectivity ----------------------------------- 12
Three-body scatter spikes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14
Bright banding ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16
Base velocity --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18
Interesting things you can see with base velocity --------------------------------------------- 19
Purple haze and the Doppler Dilemma ---------------------------------------------------------- 23
Range folding -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23
The Doppler Dilemma --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23
Volume coverage patterns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25
The cone of silence ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27
Anomalous propagation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28
Ground clutter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28
Superrefraction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31
Summary and conclusions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33
Glossary -----------------------------------------------------------------