National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
W-Band Radar
equipmentfield / airborne sensorIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder; CIRES
Description
Highly sensitive 95 GHz W-band radar designed and built by NOAA and CIRES researchers at PSL to detect small cloud water droplets that longer-wavelength weather radars miss; deployable on aircraft and ships.
Official page
https://psl.noaa.gov/technology/w-band-radar/
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Details
- Keywords
- cloud droplet detection, millimeter-wave radar, small water droplets, aircraft and ships, high sensitivity radar
- Key spec
- 95 GHz (W-band)
- Equipment class
- Millimeter-wave cloud radar
- Associated entity
- NOAA
- Deployment platform
- aircraft; ship
- Specifications
- The term W-Band refers to the frequency band in which the radar operates, 95 GHz. | Weather radars that most people see on their local weather channel use longer wavelengths, typically 10 cm, and can detect only large precipitation drops in rain clou…