This chapter describes a commercial bistatic receiver, for convenience called a bistatic network receiver (BNR). Two or more BNRs hitchhiking off a monostatic doppler weather radar can retrieve full, three-dimensional vector wind fields.

Chapter Contents:

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Existing Radar Methods for Retrieving Vector Winds
• 8.3 System Theory
• 8.4 System Characteristics and Design Trade-Offs
• 8.5 Test Results
• References

Inspec keywords: radar receivers; wind; meteorological radar; Doppler radar

Other keywords: wind measurements; monostatic doppler weather radar; commercial bistatic receiver; BNR; bistatic network receiver; three-dimensional vector wind fields

Subjects: Instrumentation and techniques for geophysical, hydrospheric and lower atmosphere research; Atmospheric, ionospheric and magnetospheric techniques and equipment; Radar equipment, systems and applications; Winds and their effects in the lower atmosphere