Aviation weather surveillance systems: advanced radar and surface sensors for flight safety and air traffic management

MAHAPATRA Pravas

Aviation weather surveillance systems: advanced radar and surface sensors for flight safety and air traffic management - Stevenage, UK: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1998 - 453p. - IEE Radar, sonar, navigation and avionics series 8 .

Describes atmospheric effects on aviation and the origins of harmful atmospheric effects on aircraft; the requirements for aviation surveillance; Doppler weather radar and other weather sensor systems; systems integration; detection and tracking of hazardous weather features. Individual sections cover turbulence and its detection by radar, lightning and lightning detection, and polarisation diversity radars.

0852969376 (hbk.): 59.00 UK


AVIATION METEOROLOGY