Development of a New Videosonde Observation System for In-situ Precipitation Particle Measurements

• Suzuki Kenji

  Yamaguchi University

• Shimizu Kensaku

  Meisei Electric Co., Ltd.

• Ohigashi Tadayasu

  Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Tsuboki Kazuhisa

  Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Oishi Satoru

  Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University

• Kawamura Seiji

  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

• Nakagawa Katsuhiro

  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

• Yamaguchi Kosei

  Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

• Nakakita Eiichi

  Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

Abstract

A new videosonde receiving system consisting of two receiving antennas for a set of videosonde and GPS radiosonde has been developed. The antenna for the videosondes is controlled by a GPS slave method, in which the antenna elevation and azimuth are processed every second using GPS location data obtained from a GPS radiosonde attached to the videosonde. The results of the first experimental flight conducted in Okinawa as part of a synchronized observation campaign of a C-band polarimetric radar and videosondes reveal successful reception of clear images of precipitation particles in clouds.

Journal

• SOLA

  SOLA 8 1-4, 2012

  Meteorological Society of Japan

Keywords

• Atmospheric Science

Details

• CRID: 1390001205221682304
• NII Article ID: 130004448568
• DOI: 10.2151/sola.2012-001
• ISSN: 13496476
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/13496476
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/8/0/8_0_1/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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