ADVANCES IN WIND PROFILER RADAR

Wind profiler radars are being deployed increasingly world-wide, furnishing critical information on changing wind fields. These instruments continuously monitor wind fields above with a high temporal / spatial resolution. The measurements do not depend on the presence of precipitation. The quality of available data has improved significantly over the past few years. Because of advances in hardware / software, measurements below 100 m are common. In addition to mean wind profiles, wind profiler radars also furnish in real time wind variability, atmospheric turbulence, wind shear information, rainfall rates, boundary layer height. We present examples of various information available from wind profiler radar data