Dr. Andrew Pazmany, Research Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts. Over the past 10 years, millimeter wave weather radars have evolved from experimental research tools to operational instruments probing weather phenomena such as tornadoes in the US Great Plains, cirrus clouds in Alaska and thunderstorms in Australia. There are at least eight active 95 GHz airborne and ground based weather radars around the world and NASA
recently approved funding for CLOUDSAT, an earth observing satellite program which includes a 95 GHz radar. This talk will highlight the benefits and problems associated with millimeter wave weather radars, review their potential use in meteorology and will present high resolution 95 GHz radar reflectivity and Doppler velocity images of tornadoes collected in 1999 with the University of Massachusetts cloud radar. Speaker abridged Biography: Andrew L. Pazmany - was born in Budapest, Hungary. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986, 1988, and 1993, respectively. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the technical staff in the Radar Technology group at Rockwell International at Anaheim, Ca., where he designed and simulated a 95 GHz radar terminal missile guidance system. In 1990 he joined the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, where his Ph.D. work focused on the design and development of a 95 GHz polarimetric radar for atmospheric research. Dr. Pazmany currently employed by the University of Massachusetts where he holds the position of Research Associate Professor. His research interests
include microwave and millimeter wavelength radar technology, radar meteorology and signal processing. |
