The Application of Weather Radar to the Understanding and Management of Meteorological Hazards
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 1585
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cloud physics; convection; atmospheric instrumentation; micro-physics; dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Meteorological hazards, including extreme precipitation, tornados, hailstorms, lightning, and tropical storms, cause significant damage worldwide. Due to the changing climate and increasing socio-demographic pressures, the risk of these events will only increase over the coming century. Radar observations of these meteorological phenomena have advanced significantly over the last few decades due to the introduction of both Doppler and dual-polarization radar technologies and the increasing prevalence of ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne radars. These advancements have broadened the insight available to meteorologists from radar observations both in a research and operational capacity. Large-scale field campaigns have enhanced our fundamental understanding of atmospheric physics through the synergistic deployment of radars with in situ and airborne sensors, while the expansion of operational weather radar networks has provided the foundation for increasingly sophisticated approaches to inform the real-time management of meteorological hazards based on our improved understanding.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions which share recent advances in the application of weather radars to both the understanding and operational management of meteorological hazards, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Multi-radar studies of meteorological events.
- Synergistic use of radar and complementary sensors.
- Microphysical insights from radar into meteorological systems.
- Advances in the use of weather radar in operational meteorological warning and forecasting systems.
- Radar-based nowcasting of meteorological events.
- Radar verification of advances to numerical weather prediction.
Prof. Alan Blyth
Dr. David Dufton
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- meteorological hazards
- weather radar
- dual polarization
- doppler
- microphysics
- dynamics
- precipitation estimation
- nowcasting
- operational meteorology
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