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Radar Storm Observation

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Compendium of Meteorology

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Through the use of radar for precipitation detection the science of meteorology has acquired an entirely new and unique method of weather observation [14]. As a result of this use the meteorologist has been presented with graphic, dynamic, and up-to-the-second depictions of precipitation formations of all types, and these in several dimensions. Techniques for analysis of radar precipitation echo signals have not yet been completely developed, and for this reason radar is presently of minor (but rapidly increasing) meteorological importance. It appears to have vast potentialities both in the fields of physical meteorological research and weather observation and forecasting, as well as other closely allied activities.

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Ligda, M.G.H. (1951). Radar Storm Observation. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_103

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