Publication Date:
2013-05-18
Description:
[1] The basic configuration of the Wuhan MST (Mesosphere-Stratosphere- Troposphere) radar, which is currently designed and constructed by School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, is preliminarily described in this paper. The Wuhan MST radar operates at VHF band (53.8 MHz) by observing the real-time characteristics of turbulence and wind field vector in the height range 3.5-90 km (not including 25-60 km) with a high temporal and height resolution. That all solid-state, all coherent pulse Doppler radar is the China's first independently development of MST radar focusing on atmospheric observation. The subsystems of the Wuhan MST radar include antenna system, feeder line system, all solid-state radar transmitters, digital receivers, beam control system, signal processing system, data processing system, product generating system, and user terminal. Advanced radar technologies are used, including high reliable all solid-state transmitters, low noise large dynamic range digital receivers, active phased array, high speed digital signal processing, and real-time graphic terminals. This paper describes the design and implement of the radar. Preliminary on-line wind measurements and results of comparison to simultaneous observations by GPS rawinsonde are presented as well.
Print ISSN:
0048-6604
Electronic ISSN:
1944-799X
Topics:
Geosciences
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Physics
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