 Micro Rain Radar for precipitation profiling |
The Micro Rain Radar (MRR) is a vertical pointing microwave profiler for the measurement of rain rate, liquid water content and drop size distribution from near ground to several hundred metres.Applications include:
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 The Micro Rain Radar The unique and innovative Micro Rain Radar is a very small, portable and easy to use radar for the measurement of profiles of drop size distributions and – derived from this – rain rates, liquid water content and characteristic falling velocity resolved into 30 range gates. Very small amounts of precipitation are detectable (below the threshold of conventional rain gauges). Due to the large scattering volume (compared to in-situ sensors) statistically stable drop size distributions can be derived within a few seconds. The droplet number concentration in each drop-diameter bin is derived from the backscatter intensity in each corresponding frequency bin. In this procedure the relation between terminal falling velocity and drop size is exploited. The data is available in raw data format, last data set, averaged data set and other modes. The accompanying software package allows you to control the settings, visualise the data, print it and export it to other applications for viewing, publication and storage etc. It is a highly reliable system suitable for use in remote and extreme environments, requiring minimal maintenance and is well adapted for long term unattended operation. The MRR can be used for now-casting of precipitation ie, it will detect the start of rain from ground level to high above the radar several minutes before the start of rain at ground level. |
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