ATRAD meteorological profiling radars

Product information

• View the ATRAD BLTR datasheet or download a PDF version.
• For information about ATRAD's upper air wind profiling radar, view the datasheet or download a PDF version.
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Scientific papers and references

• Reid, I.M., Ground based radar for observations of the atmosphere, Proceedings of the Workshop for Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics, 107, No. 2, 73-78, ISSN 0913-5685, Technical Group on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, Perth, April 2007.
  
  
• A. D. Mackinnon and D. A. Holdsworth, Initial tests of a small scale VHF Boundary Layer Radar,
  Eleventh Workshop on Scientific and Technical aspects of MST Radar, December 2006, Gadanki / Tirupati, India.
  A 735 kB PDF copy of this presentation is available.
  
  
• Reid, I.M., J.F. Wang, Z.Y. Zhao and C.C. Tang, Observations using the Wuhan ST and meteor radar, International MST-11 Conference, Tirupati, India, December, 2006.
  
  
• Reid, I.M., D.A. Holdsworth, S. Kovalam, R.A. Vincent, and J. Stickland, The Mount Gambier VHF wind profiler, Radio Sci., 40, RS5007, doi:10.1029/2004003055, 2005
  
  
• N. A. Crook and J. Sun, Assimilating Radar, Surface, and Profiler Data for the Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project., Journal of Atmospheric and oceanic technology, 19(6), 888-898, 2002
  
  
• Lucas, C., P.T. May and R.A. Vincent, An Algorithm for the Detection of Fronts in Wind Profiler Data, Weather and Forecasting, 16, 234-247, 2001.
  
  
• Baltink, H-K. and I.M. Reid, CaPRIX: Cabauw PRofiler Intercomparison eXperiment, Fifth International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, Adelaide, December 2000.
  
  
• Reid, I.M., R.A. Vincent, D.A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, B.H. Johnson and A. Dowdy, The Mount Gambier Operational Profiler, MST9, Toulouse, France, March, 2000.
  
  
• I.M. Reid, A. D. MacKinnon, R.A. Vincent, F. Zink, D. A. Holdsworth, B.H Johnson, J, Stickland, A new VHF Radar for Use in Operational Meteorology, PIERS 99, Taipei, Taiwan, March, 1999.
  
  
• Vincent, R. A., S. Dullaway, A. D. MacKinnon, I. M. Reid, F. Zink., P. T. May, and B. H. Johnson, A VHF boundary layer radar: First Results, Radio Sci., 33(4), 845 - 860, 1998.
  
  
• Reid, I. M., B. H. Johnson, D. A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, J. Strickland, R. A. Vincent, and F. Zink, 1998: A new VHF radar for use in operational meteorology. Extended Abstracts, Fourth Int. Symp. on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, Snowmass, CO, University of Colorado, 264-266.
  
  
• Reid, I.M., B. H. Johnson, D. A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, J. Stickland, R. A. Vincent and F. Zink, A new VHF radar for use in operational meteorology, STSP Workshop, 13th National Congress of the AIP, Fremantle, Australia, September 1998.
  
  
• Holdsworth, D. A., and I. M. Reid, Comparison of Spaced Antenna and Doppler Interferometer techniques using the Mt Gambier ST profiler, ISTP Meeting, Snowmass, Colorado, September 20-25, 1998.
  
  
• Reid, I. M., B. H. Johnson, D. A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, J. Stickland, A. Sharp, R. A. Vincent and F. Zink, A new VHF radar for use in Operational Meteorology, Proceedings 4th International symposium on Tropospheric profiling, Sept 1998
  
  
• Reid, I. M., S. Dillon, B. Fuller, D. A. Holdsworth, B. H. Johnson, J. Stickland, R. A. Vincent, The Mt Gambier VHF radar: A prototype operational Profiler, Eighth Workshop on Scientific and Technical aspects of MST/ST Radar, Bangalore, India, December 15-19, 1997.