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2006/4/13 II中尺度氣象學

Real-Time Retrieval of Wind from Aliased Velocities Measured by Doppler radars

Hochin Chang

Tarary, P. and, G. Scialom, 2001: Real-time retrieval of the wind from aliased velocities measured by Doppler radars. J.Tech, 18, 875-881


Outline

• Introduction– Aliasing– Nyquist velocity

• Method– VAD– Modified VAD

• Result• An operational application of the algorithm• Concluding Remarks


Introduction

• Doppler radar measurements provide the radial wind within an unambiguous interval due to the limited value of the sampling frequency ( pulse repetition frequency )


Introduction

• unambiguous range and unambiguous velocity

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Introduction

• There are two directions to overcome this difficulty, that is , to dealias velocity measurements.– It is possible to increase nyquist velocity by alte

rnatively using to different PRF.– To build algorithms in order to put a posteriori

Vr in the right interval by continuity on the measurements.


Method

• VAD (Velocity Azimuth Display)

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2 2

cos sincos 2 sin 2

rV a a ba b


cos sincos cos

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x y zVr u v w vr r r


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u uu u x yx y

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cos sincos cos

x ry r

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0 1 1

2 2

cos sincos 2 sin 2

rV a a ba b

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2 2

cos sincos 2 sin 2

rV a a ba b

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x y

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Modify VAD

• In the classical VAD analysis, a major requirement is that radial velocities have to be corrected for alising.

• This is the reason why to propose a modified version of the VAD analysis that can be applied to raw, that is , possibly aliased data.


Modify VAD

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cos sin

coscos

rV a b

a ub v

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x y

a vb u

0 1 1 2 2cos sin cos 2 sin 2rV a a b a b


Modify VAD

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1 cos cos sin minqN

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q q

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cos sin

coscos

rV a b

a ub v


Modify VAD

• Select all data Mq of the sweep with the same gate number as M and with azimuth between θq+Δθ,and θ-Δθ,where Δθ is the half width of the angular search window.


Modify VAD

• Reject all data Mq with radial velocity outside the Vr-ΔVr and Vr+ΔVr where ΔVr is the nyquist velocity.


Modify VAD

• If the number of remaining data is sufficient, fit the resulting dataset to a straight line ( Vr =αθ+β)

• The slope is rV


Modify VAD

• Estimate the quality of the fit σ by calculating the dispersion of the data around the straight line

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Results

• 0300 UTC 20 Sep 1999 • Mesoscale Alpine Program IOP#2• French C-band Doppler radar Ronsard • San Pietro Mosezzo in the southern forela

nd of the Alps.


Vertical profiles of the horizontal wind direction (a) and intensity (b).Diamonds mean classical VAD analysis to previously dealiased radial velocities and stars mean application of the method to raw radar data.


An operational application of the algorithm

• Implementation– A similar VAD algorithm is operational at the th

ree radar sites of MeteoSwiss since August 1998

– It relies on exactly the same idea, but the calculation of derivative is somewhat simpler.

• Quality control


Concluding remarks

• A method based upon a modified VAD analysis that provides an estimate of the wind profile directly from the raw( possibly aliased) radial velocities.

• The basic idea of the method is to estimate empirically the local azimuthal derivative of the radial velocity at each measurement and to perform a VAD analysis with that parameter instead of the radial velocity.


Concluding remarks

• An illustration of the performance of the method has been carried out on a real case of the MAP Experiment ( 0300 UTC 20 Sep 1999) using data from the French C-band Ronsard radar.

• Difference in terms of wind speed and direction between the modified and classical VAD analysis are smaller than 10%.


Concluding remarks

• A similar method has been implemented on Swiss C-band radar network in August 1998.

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