The use of Doppler radars for studying the turbulence of air masses in clouds

Vladyslav I. Lutsenko; Iryna V. Lutsenko; Nguyen Xuan Anh

doi:10.3103/S0735272710060014

Authors

Vladyslav I. Lutsenko Usikov Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3753-7074
Iryna V. Lutsenko Usikov Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8568-0652
Nguyen Xuan Anh Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Viet Nam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3103/S0735272710060014

Keywords:

turbulent pulsations, air mass velocity, moment characteristics, scattered signal spectrum, wind shear

Abstract

A method for estimating the turbulent pulsations of the velocity of air masses in clouds has been proposed. This method is based on the spectra of scattered signals and makes use of the moment characteristics of the scattered signal spectrum and deviations of the characteristics from trend changes for estimating the shear characteristics of the air stream in terms of both the average speed and its spread.

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