{"id":4981,"date":"2019-03-14T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:34:01","slug":"radar-experts-publish-new-book-on-weather-radar-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2019\/03\/radar-experts-publish-new-book-on-weather-radar-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Radar experts publish new book on weather radar technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to Doppler weather radar, scientists with NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory wrote the book. Literally. Publications authored and co-authored by researchers at NSSL and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies expanded \u00a0knowledge on radars and provided strategies used by weather forecasters today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After more than three decades, those scientists have done it again. A new book by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cimms.ou.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CIMMS <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Research Scientist Alexander Ryzhkov, and co-authored by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nssl.noaa.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NSSL<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Senior Scientist Dusan Zrnic, highlights the biggest technological upgrade to Doppler radars since they were first installed &#8212; dual-polarization technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/us\/book\/9783030050924#aboutBook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cRadar Polarimetry for Weather Observations,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> published by Springer Nature, offers an array of information on weather <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/tools\/radar\/dualpol\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">radar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> polarimetry. Polarimetric radar \u2014 \u00a0and polarimetry \u2014 improves the accuracy of precipitation estimates, detects aviation hazards, can identify precipitation types, and can spot many other items such as bats or even tornado debris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to connecting processes responsible for the development and evolution of the bulk of clouds\u2019 physical properties, the publication also provides up-to-date polarimetric methodologies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The publication will appeal to practicing radar meteorologists, hydrologists, microphysicists, and modelers who are interested in the bulk properties of hydrometeors and quantification of these with the goals to improve precipitation measurements, understanding of precipitation processes, or model forecasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/us\/book\/9783030050924#aboutBook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Springer&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book  highlights the biggest technological upgrade to Doppler radars since first installed &#8211; dual-polarization technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":4984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,12],"tags":[52,622,400],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-radar","category-research-news","tag-book","tag-featured","tag-radar"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}