Ebook: Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems - Advanced Radar and Surface Sensors for Flight Safety and Air Traffic Management

This book has been written to provide a comprehensive introduction to the science, sensors and systems that form modern aviation weather surveillance systems. Focusing on radar-based surveillance, it deals in logical, stepwise detail with the fundamentals of the various disciplines involved and with their complex interplay. This includes giving a background to aviation systems and control, atmospheric and meteorological aspects, weather issues in relation to aviation, and broad coverage of modern aviation weather surveillance and information systems, including detailed material on Doppler weather radar, plus new generation atmospheric sensors.
Content:
• Front Matter
Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Basic Background of Aviation
3. Atmospheric Effects on Aviation
4. Origins of Harmful Atmospheric Effects on Aircraft
5. Requirements of Systems for Aviation Weather Surveillance
6. Doppler Weather Radar as a Primary Aviation Weather Sensor
Colour Plates
7. Modern Doppler Weather Radars for Aviation
8. Other Sensors and Systems for Aviation Weather
9. Integrated System Approaches
10. Automatic Detection and Tracking of Hazardous Weather Features
•Special Topics in Aviation Weather Surveillance
11. Atmospheric Turbulence and Its Detection by Radar
12. Lightning and Aviation
13. Polarisation Diversity Radars
• Index