Guifu Zhang

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide a high-level technical concept and terminology for PARs as applied to studies of the atmosphere and a vision for the future of operational networks, research facilities, and expansion into complementary radar wavelengths.

TL;DR: In this article, an optimal design of a cylindrical polarimetric phased array radar (CPPAR) for weather sensing is presented, where invasive weed optimization (IWO) technique is employed to obtain the desired radiation pattern of the CPPAR.

TL;DR: DSDs of these intense rainfall convections observed in this midlatitude region of eastern Asia somewhat represent the typical DSD characteristics in low latitudes, suggesting that the parameterization of microphysical characteristics in eastern China in numerical models needs to be further investigated to improve rain fall forecasts in these heavy rainfall events.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of two different ways of modeling errors in simulated radar reflectivity data for observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) with an ensemble Kalman filter is investigated.

TL;DR: The hardware instrumentation of a recently completed project that digitizes the radar signals produced by eight other channels, built into the antenna, to foster a new generation of adaptive/fast scanning techniques and space-antenna/interferometry measurements, which will then be used for improved weather forecasting via data assimilation.