Weather Radar Related Links

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Links to the sites of weather radar manufacturers

• ADC - Advanced Designs Corporation, USA
• Baron Weather Solutions - Baron Services, Inc., USA
• BLET - Beijing Leiyin Electronic Technology Development Co, China
• EEC - Enterprise Electronic Corporation, USA
• EWR - EWR Weather Radar Systems, USA
• GAMIC - GAMIC mbH, Germany
• IRAM - INSTITUTE of RADAR METEOROLOGY, Russia
• METSTAR - Beijing Metstar Radar Co., Ltd., China
• Radtec Engineering - Radtec Engineering Inc., USA
• SELEX-Gematronik - SELEX SI - Gematronic GmbH, Germany
• Thales - Thales Air Traffic Management, France
• Toshiba - Toshiba All Solidstate Weather Radar, Japan
• Vaisala Weather Radar - Vaisala Oy, Finland
• The (external) HMEI Products Catalogue shows a detailed page on weather radars

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The ERAD series

• ERAD 2010 - The 6th ERAD conference held in Sibiu, Romenia, proceedings online
• ERAD 2008 - The 5th ERAD conference held in Helsinki, Finland, proceedings onlin
• ERAD 2006 - The 4th ERAD conference held in Barcelona, Spain, proceedings online
• ERAD 2004 - The 3th ERAD conference held in Gotland, Sweden
• ERAD 2002 - The 2th ERAD conference held in Delft, The Netherlands
• ERAD 2000 - The 1th ERAD conference held in Bologna, Italy

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Weather Radar Tutorials and Documentation

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Training Material generated by the Turkey Met Service in commission of the WMO/CIMO
• IOM-88 Module-a INTRODUCTION TO RADAR
• IOM-88 Module-b RADAR HARDWARE
• IOM-88 Module-c PROCESSING BASICS IN DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS
• IOM-88 Module-d RADAR PRODUCTS AND OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS
• IOM-88 Module-e RADAR MAINTENANCE AND CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES
• IOM-88 Module-f RADAR INFRASTRUCTURE

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The official Federal Handbook 11, dealing with the NextRad network
• Fmh-11a-2009_procedures
• Fmh-11b-2005_doppler_radar_meteorolocical_observations
• Fmh-11c-2006_products_algorithms
• Fmh-11d-2006_operational_appl

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An also online European initative under GPL license to bring Radar knowledge to the public maintained by Christian Wolff engineering
• www.radartutorial.eu_book1_basics
• www.radartutorial.eu_book2_sets
• www.radartutorial.eu_book3_antenna
• www.radartutorial.eu_book4_transmitter

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More Tutorials
• Some details about antenna patterns
• Advanced Radar Polarimetry Tutorial
• a free and Book on doppler radar observation published in 2012 under Creative Commons 3.0 can be downloaded from the InTech website