International Weather Radar Networking: Final Seminar of the COST Project 73

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Statement by Professor G.O.P. Obasi Secretary-General of WMO at the Opening of the Final Cost-73 Seminar: Weather Radar Networking....Pages 1-4
Opening Address....Pages 5-5
Yugoslav participation in COST projects....Pages 7-17
What is COST?....Pages 19-24
Cost 73 — An Example of European Cooperation: Objectives and Organization of Work in the Project....Pages 25-34
Radar Measurement and Quality....Pages 35-40
Using DSP32C Floating Point Signal Processor as a Radar Video Processor to Build a Modification Kit for Conventional Analog Weather Radar....Pages 41-46
On the Importance of Noise Figure in Reflectivity Radars....Pages 47-54
Operational Radar Measurements of Rainfall: The Accuracy of Point Estimates of Rainfall Rate....Pages 55-59
Progresive Method of Precipitation and Its Applications....Pages 61-64
Use of Operational Radar Images for Investigations of Convective Cells....Pages 65-67
Operational use of Doppler Radar in Veneto Region — Italy....Pages 69-74
An Analytic Method for Radar Horizon Computation....Pages 75-79
Report by the Cost Project 73 Telecommunications Working Party....Pages 81-99
Weather Radar Data Distribution and Presentation in Austria....Pages 101-109
A Meteorological Information Processing System (MIPS)....Pages 111-116
Strategy for A Low-Cost Cost 73 Display System....Pages 117-119
External and Internal distribution of weather radar products at SMHI....Pages 121-126
Marketing and Uses of Weather Radar in the U.K. Meteorological Office....Pages 127-132
Weather Radar Coverage and Networking Procedures....Pages 133-138
Image Mosaics from Swedish Weather Radars....Pages 139-142
A Suggested Architecture for Radar-Meteorological Operative Center....Pages 143-148
Overview of Regional Radar Meteorological Activity in Czech Republic....Pages 149-153
The Nordic Weather Radar Network....Pages 155-162
Overview of the National Weather Radar Activities in Romania....Pages 163-165
Possible Solutions for an Italian Radar Network....Pages 167-172
Weather Radar Network in Croatia....Pages 173-178
The UK Weather Radar Network, the Current Situation and Future Plans....Pages 179-183
International Radar Products....Pages 185-190
Experiments to reveal regions of frequent spurious radar echoes in COST-73 composites....Pages 191-196
Potential Benefits of the Products of an Integrated European Weather Radar Network....Pages 197-203
Forecasting and Weather Modification Uses of Radar Data....Pages 205-210
Development of the FRONTIERS Precipitation Nowcasting System and Initial Forecast Results....Pages 211-216
Nowcasting of Rain with Radar....Pages 217-222
A Universal Coordinate System for Hail Suppression Activities in Croatia....Pages 223-228
End User Requirements....Pages 229-235
A Preliminary Analysis of the Hydrological Utilisation of the ‘Frontiers’ System....Pages 237-242
Development of a Weather Radar Based Rainfall Forecasting Technique for Real-Time Operational Use....Pages 243-249
Precipitation Forecasting and Estimation Model Based on the Information Supplied by the Meteorological Radar....Pages 251-256
First Results and Future Radar Developments in Emilia Romagna Region (Italy)....Pages 257-263
Advanced Radar Techniques....Pages 265-270
Improved characterisation of precipitation type and intensity with polarisation diversity radar....Pages 271-276
Polarisation Radar Estimates of Rainfall: Correction of Errors Due to the Bright Band and to Anomalous Propagation....Pages 277-282
The DLR Polarimetric Doppler Radar — a Step toward Operational Use....Pages 283-289
Weater Radar System Requirements for Accurate Simultaneous Measurement of Zdr and $$ \Phi $$ dp....Pages 291-298
The Recommendation of the COST-73 Project: A Way Ahead for Weather Radar in Europe....Pages 299-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-332