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Table 2 MU radar parameters used during ShUREX 2015 campaign

From: Vertical structure of the lower troposphere derived from MU radar, unmanned aerial vehicle, and balloon measurements during ShUREX 2015

Parameter

 

Beam directions

(0°,0°),(0°,0°),(0°,0°),(0°,0°),(0°,0°),

(0°,10°),(45°,10°),(90°,10°),(135°,10°),(180°,10°)

Radar frequencies (MHz)

46.00,46.25,46.50,46.75,47.00

Interpulse period (μs)

400

Subpulse duration (μs)

1

Pulse coding

1 16-bit optimal code b

Range resolution (m)

150

Height sampling (FII) (m)

5

Number of gates

128

Coherent integration number

32

Incoherent integration number

- (time series)

Number of FFT points

128

Acquisition time (s)

16.384a

Time sampling (s)

4.096

Nyquist frequency (Hz)

3.9063

Velocity aliasing (ms−1)

12.6

  1. aAcquisition time of a time series of 128 points for each direction but the effective time resolution is about half (~ 8 s) due to Hanning windowing of the time series. FII, frequency domain radar interferometric imaging. FFT, fast Fourier transform
  2. bSpano and Ghebrebhran (1996)