How does weather radar operating in the reflectivity mode locate and plot the motion of areas of precipitation?

How does weather radar operating in the reflectivity mode locate and plot the motion of areas of precipitation?How does weather radar operating in the reflectivity mode locate and plot the motion of areas of precipitation?Moisture dense enough to form precipitation cells in the atmosphere simply reflects more electromagnetic energy back to the radar antenna than clear air. The computer in the radar set is designed to make a number of measures and calculations from which it is able to derive the location, distance, and speed of motion of the target rain cells by applying geometry, trigonometry, algebra, etc., to known physical constants.



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