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Radar meteorology was initiated by an imaginative reversal of perspective. During World War II, radar proved to be a great help to the Allied cause, perhaps most spectacularly in the Battle of Britain. Radar operators soon recognized, however, that detection of aircraft and other military targets might be compromised by a phenomenon somewhat disparagingly called “weather clutter.” Fortunately, an elite corps of meteorologists had the vision to realize that the nuisance of weather clutter could, with research, provide a powerful new observational tool for meteorology. The author’s initial point of contact with this group of pioneers was (then) Major Joseph Fletcher.
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Donaldson, R.J. (1990). Foundations of Severe Storm Detection by Radar. In: Atlas, D. (eds) Radar in Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-15-7_15
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