STUDY ON APPLICATIONS OF C-BAND DUAL LINEAR POLARIZATION RADAR IN METEOROLOGY^*

Theoretical study and development of a dual linear polarization weather radar in China are briefly presented.Also discussed are the potential uses of the new radar system in improving the accuracy of areal rainfall measurements and analysing the spacial structure of storms and distribution of hydrometecrs in clouds based on the radar observational data from the field experimcnts during the summers of 1987-1989.The results indicate that a C-band dual polarization weather radar,after considering the microwave attenuation correction,may be employed to quantitatively measure rainfall and to monitor heavy rain and flood events and becomes an imporrant means to study storm structure.