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Deployment and Monitoring of an X-Band Dual-Polarization Phased Array Weather Radar

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dc.contributor.advisorStephen Frasier
dc.contributor.authorMasiunas, Lauren
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical & Computer Engineering
dc.date2024-03-28T19:25:28.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T18:06:29Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T18:06:29Z
dc.date.submittedSeptember
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes the deployment of MIRSL's X-band dual-polarization Phase-Tilt Weather Radar (PTWR) at the University of Texas at Arlington during spring 2014. While this radar has been used to observe weather in Western Massachusetts, more observations of severe weather were required to determine the limits of its abilities in sensing more rapidly evolving weather systems. This site was chosen also for its proximity to the Dallas-Fort Worth Urban Testbed Network set up by the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), which provided the ability to compare and calibrate the PTWR data against another well-documented X-band weather radar. A data processing pipeline was developed for converting raw PTWR data to NetCDF format, which allows for easy sharing and mapping of weather data. Finally, this is the first in-depth documentation of the PTWR system and specifically the roof-mounted setup utilized for this deployment.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (M.S.E.C.E.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/6018679
dc.identifier.orcidN/A
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/32665
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectPhased array
dc.subjectWeather radar
dc.titleDeployment and Monitoring of an X-Band Dual-Polarization Phased Array Weather Radar
dc.typeopenaccess
dc.typearticle
dc.typethesis
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