ATMOSPHERIC PROFILER AND PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION ON THE MONITORING OF DISASTROUS WEATHER

Outlined in this paper are main technical specifications of the first profiler developed in China.The profiler is composed of a UHF Doppler radar for wind measurement and a microwave radiometer,and preliminarily applied in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei base of monitoring disastrous weather in 1989-1990.This paper presents the preliminary and valuable results obtained by the instrument in the monitoring of severe storm generating and evolution,showing the potential of this instrument in weather monitoring.