Radar Meteorology and its Applications

V. Chandrasekar is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, USA. He has made pioneering contributions to the area of polarimetric radar observations of the atmosphere. He is coauthor of several textbooks: Polarimetric and Doppler Weather Rada and Probability and Random Processes. He is a Co-PI and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center, Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), where he serves as the research director and provides leadership for the sensing research thrust. He was an elected Fellow of IEEE, the American Meteorological Society, and CIRA in recognition of his contributions to “quantitative remote sensing.” He has won numerous awards including the NASA Technical Innovation Award in 2002, Cermack Outstanding Advisor Award in 2001, etc.Saurabh Das is Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He received his PhD in radiophysics and electronics from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and his M.Sc. in physics from the IIT Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India. Recipient of a number of Young Scientist awards and fellowships from different organizations like URSI, SERB, DST, etc., he has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers in reputed international journals. He has also served as PI of several externally funded projects from ISRO, DST, and SERB. His current research interests include radar meteorology, GNSS remote sensing, wave propagation through the atmosphere and ionosphere, and machine learning applications in atmospheric science problems.Abhirup Datta is Professor in the Department of Astrophysics, Space Engineering and Data Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He joined the same department as Assistant Professor, in 2015. Earlier, he was Senior Research Associate at the Centre of Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, as well as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow. He did his PhD from New Mexico Tech/NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in Socorro, USA. He is PI of several ongoing and completed sponsored research projects in India and abroad and has published more than 90 publications in international journals. His research interests are primarily in observational cosmology at low radio frequencies, including in radio astronomy from ground and space, including RF instrumentations for space and ground including RADARs and space weather.

• Chapter 1 Principles of Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar and Doppler Weather Radar; Similarities and Differences in Waveforms and Signal Processing.- Chapter 2 Deployment and Performance Evaluation of an Indigenously Designed High-Voltage Pulse Capacitor Bank for S-Band Dual-Polarized Doppler Weather Radar.- Chapter 3 Polarization controlled broadband frequency selective surface Based absorber for stealth design in high frequency radar.- Chapter 4Augmentation of Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) network for improved weather prediction over India.- Chapter 5 Overview of Dual-Polarization Radar-observations of Thunderstorms and Electrification Weather.- Chapter 6 Investigation Of Rainfall Over Indore From Surface Observations.- Chapter 7 High-resolution 3D Wind Field Estimation with Single Doppler Weather Radar.- Chapter 8 Microphysical Study of Precipitation over Ny-Ålesund, an Arctic location.- Chapter 9 Construction of a longer-term and more homogeneous GSMaP precipitation dataset.- Chapter 10 Artificial Intelligence in the Perception of Weather Radar Now Casting.- Chapter 11 Reconstructing radar reflectivity by synergistic use of space borne radar from GPM and satellite observations from INSAT3D for near real-time monitoring of convective storms over India.- Chapter 12 Orographic Rainfall Prediction Using Doppler Weather RADAR – A Soft Computing Approach.- Chapter 13 Enhanced Weather Surveillance and Disaster Mitigation Capabilities in Central India.- Chapter 14 RADCAST- A high resolution probabilistic radar based autonowcast system.- Chapter 15 Sensitivity of WRF simulations of Intensity and Track parameters of Nivar Cyclone to Land Surface Physics and validation with DWR observations.- Chapter 16 Microphysics Sensitivity of Intensity and Track Parameters of Mandous Cyclone simulated by WRF.- Chapter 17 Study of Extreme Rainfall event in Chennai on 30 December 2021 using high resolution WRF simulation and DWR Observations.- Chapter 18 Dual Wavelength Csu-Chill Radar Observations Of Insects And Birds.- Chapter 19 Synergy between Atmospheric studies and Radio Astronomy: Use of Passive mode operation of weather radar.- Chapter 20 Observations from Lower Atmosphere, Mesosphere and Ionosphere using 53MHz VHF Radar at University of Calcutta.- Chapter 21 Solar Observation at 53 MHz using CU-ST Radar with Signal processing Techniques in Passive Mode Operation.