A multipurpose radar simulation package: QuickBeam

被引：144

作者：

Haynes, J. M. ^{[1
]}

Marchand, R. T. ^{[2
]}

Luo, Z. ^{[1
]}

Bodas-Salcedo, A. ^{[3
]}

Stephens, G. L. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Colorado State Univ, Dept Atmospher Sci, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA

[2] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA

[3] Hadley Ctr Climate Change, Met Off, Exeter, Devon, England

来源：

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | 2007年 / 88卷 / 11期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1175/BAMS-88-11-1723

中图分类号：

P4 [大气科学（气象学）];

学科分类号：

0706 ; 070601 ;

摘要：

The launch of the CloudSat cloud radar has provided some of the first near-global views of the three-dimensional structure of clouds from space. To evaluate clouds in numerical models and compare them to the observations made by CloudSat, it is useful to have a tool that converts modeled clouds to radar returns that might be viewed by a radar system on a satellite passing over the model domain. QuickBeam is a user-friendly radar simulation package that performs this function and is freely available to the :meteorological community. The workings of the simulator are briefly described and several applications of the simulator to numerical models are demonstrated.

引用

页码：1723 / +

页数：6

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