This research study represents an ongoing research effort on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with a focus on anomalous propagation of radar echo returns, mirroring established theoretical constructs of gravitat...This research study represents an ongoing research effort on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with a focus on anomalous propagation of radar echo returns, mirroring established theoretical constructs of gravitational effects on light, which occur at higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths within the Electromagnetic Spectrum. These influences are also illustrated through other technologies, including Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and the chromatic effects captured by hyperspectral cameras. This research addresses the complexities of interpreting unusual propagation patterns, such as Long Delay Echoes (LDE) and unexpected Field Echoes (UFE), which disrupt the anticipated propagation and echo protocols, thereby challenging our understanding and comprehension of radio transmission norms that may be influenced by a form of quantum entanglement. The paper posits a significant and largely unexamined correlation between these phenomena in the context of UAP activity, highlighting the urgent need for further research and innovative strategies in navigation technology and environmental monitoring to investigate these potential occurrences, which have remained enigmatic for nearly a century. Radar signals are vulnerable to intricate dynamics that can lead to Unusual Field Echoes (UFE), resulting in emergent anomalies, such as Multiple echo returns and LDEs. This study employed a 3-centimeter marine-based X-band radar operating in two scan geometries and a portable short-range millimeter-wave Doppler radar system. An analysis of these radar echoes over a two-year study identified signal propagation that deviated from navigational standards on Plan Position Indicators (PPI). This paper explores and investigates the potential impacts of UAP on radar transmission routes. Examining these complexities makes a case for an enhanced understanding of the interactions between established technological factors and elusive aerial phenomena.展开更多
Based on previously released data,this paper first presented the criteria for recognizing bow echoes and divided their life cycle into three stages:the development stage,the mature stage,and the attenuation stage.Base...Based on previously released data,this paper first presented the criteria for recognizing bow echoes and divided their life cycle into three stages:the development stage,the mature stage,and the attenuation stage.Based on Doppler weather radar data during 2011-2020,43 bow echo events(including 54 individual bow echoes)in western South China were identified.The spatial and temporal distributions,formation and dissipation modes of these bow echoes,and the severe weather they caused were statistically analyzed.The results show that:(1)The bow echo events were unevenly distributed year-to-year,but all occurred from March to July,with the highest in April and May and the lowest in July.The period from night to early morning was found to be the main period for bow echo generation and intensification.(2)A banded area from Hechi City on the southeastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Wuzhou City in southeast Guangxi was identified as a high-incidence area of bow echoes.The length of bow echoes was correlated with their life cycle.(3)The origins of the bow echoes could be divided into five locations,most of which were in the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.After entering western South China,their moving paths were categorized into three types,among which most bow echoes moved southeastward,generally because of the effect of cold air.Specifically,bow echoes generally moved eastward when cold air was weak or in the warm zone.Meanwhile,the fewest bow echoes moved northeastward.(4)Four modes of bow echo formation were identified:linearly organized,broken areal,linearly merging,and broken line.Dissipation could also be classified into four types.(5)The probability of convective weather generated by a bow echo was largest in the mature stage.展开更多
Millimeter-wave cloud radar(MMCR)provides the capability of detecting the features of micro particles inside clouds and describing the internal microphysical structure of the clouds.Therefore,MMCR has been widely appl...Millimeter-wave cloud radar(MMCR)provides the capability of detecting the features of micro particles inside clouds and describing the internal microphysical structure of the clouds.Therefore,MMCR has been widely applied in cloud observations.However,due to the influence of non-meteorological factors such as insects,the cloud observations are often contaminated by non-meteorological echoes in the clear air,known as clear-air echoes.It is of great significance to automatically identify the clear-air echoes in order to extract effective meteorological information from the complex weather background.The characteristics of clear-air echoes are studied here by combining data from four devices:an MMCR,a laser-ceilometer,an L-band radiosonde,and an all-sky camera.In addition,a new algorithm,which includes feature extraction,feature selection,and classification,is proposed to achieve the automatic identification of clear-air echoes.The results show that the recognition algorithm is fairly satisfied in both simple and complex weather conditions.The recognition accuracy can reach up to 95.86%for the simple cases when cloud echoes and clear-air echoes are separate,and 88.38%for the complicated cases when low cloud echoes and clear-air echoes are mixed.展开更多
In underwater target detection, the bottom reverberation has some of the same properties as the target echo, which has a great impact on the performance. It is essential to study the difference between target echo and...In underwater target detection, the bottom reverberation has some of the same properties as the target echo, which has a great impact on the performance. It is essential to study the difference between target echo and reverberation. In this paper, based on the unique advantage of human listening ability on objects distinction, the Gammatone filter is taken as the auditory model. In addition, time-frequency perception features and auditory spectral features are extracted for active sonar target echo and bottom reverberation separation. The features of the experimental data have good concentration characteristics in the same class and have a large amount of differences between different classes, which shows that this method can effectively distinguish between the target echo and reverberation.展开更多
Polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSEs)are very strong radar echoes in the polar mesopause in local summer.Here we present the frequency dependence of the volume reflectivity and the effect of energetic particle precipi...Polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSEs)are very strong radar echoes in the polar mesopause in local summer.Here we present the frequency dependence of the volume reflectivity and the effect of energetic particle precipitation on modulated PMSEs by using PMSEs observations carried out by European Incoherent SCATter(EISCAT)heating equipment simultaneously with very high frequency(VHF)radar and ultra high frequency(UHF)radar on 12 July 2007.According to the experimental observations,the PMSEs occurrence rate at VHF was much higher than that at UHF,and the altitude of the PMSEs maximum observed at VHF was higher than that at UHF.Overlapping regions were observed by VHF radar between high energetic particle precipitation and the PMSEs.In addition,highfrequency heating had a very limited impact on PMSEs when the UHF electron density was enhanced because of energetic particle precipitation.In addition,an updated qualitative method was used to study the relationship between volume reflectivity and frequency.The volume reflectivity was found to be inversely proportional to the fourth power of radar frequency.The theoretical and experimental results provide a definitive data foundation for further analysis and investigation of the physical mechanism of PMSEs.展开更多
The observations of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) were carried out using the sporadic data of EISCAT UHF radar during the summer season from 2004 to 2015. There were 25 h of PMSE echoes with EISCAT UHF radar. ...The observations of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) were carried out using the sporadic data of EISCAT UHF radar during the summer season from 2004 to 2015. There were 25 h of PMSE echoes with EISCAT UHF radar. PMSE echoes were mostly observed only during the early morning and fore-noon time. Moreover, the PMSE echoes are positively correlated with Lymanα radiation, but the correlation is non-significant. The occurrence of PMSE echoes in the early morning and fore-noon time and there positive correlation with Lymanαradiation suggests that solar radiations might be one important factor for PMSE echoes in this study. Very weak positive, but statistically non-significant correlation is found between PMSE occurrence rate and the local geomagneticK-indices. It is found that there is a matching between the variation in the occurrence rate of PMSE and noctilucent clouds (NLC) up to some extent and they are positively correlated. This positive correlation might support the earlier proposed idea about the role of ice particle size in producing PMSE echoes at higher frequencies.展开更多
Underwater acoustic scattering echoes have time–space structures and are aliasing in time and frequency domains.Different series of echoes properties are not identified when incident angle is unknown.This article inv...Underwater acoustic scattering echoes have time–space structures and are aliasing in time and frequency domains.Different series of echoes properties are not identified when incident angle is unknown.This article investigates variations in target echoes of monostatic sonar to address this problem.The mother wavelet with similar structures has been proposed on the basis of preprocessing signal waveform using matched filter,and the theoretical expressions between delay factor and incident angle are derived in the wavelet domain.Analysis of simulation data and experimental results in free-field pool show that this method can effectively separate geometrical scattering components of target echoes.The time delay estimation obtained from geometrical echoes at a single angle is consistent with target geometrical features,which provides a basis for object recognition without angle information.The findings provide valuable insights for analyzing elastic scattering echoes in actual ocean environment.展开更多
Polar mesosphere summer echoes （PMSE） are very strong radar echoes from alti- tudes close to the polar summer mesopause. The data from sounding rocket campaigns indicate that the radar signal to noise ratio （SNR）,...Polar mesosphere summer echoes （PMSE） are very strong radar echoes from alti- tudes close to the polar summer mesopause. The data from sounding rocket campaigns indicate that the radar signal to noise ratio （SNR）, electron density and dust charge density of polar meso- sphere in summer show obvious layered structure. In this paper the theory of wave propagation in layered media is used to study the reflectance and SNR at each layer in polar mesosphere. The calculated SNR using theory of dusty plasma is found in good agreement with the experimental result, which may imply that the intensity of the radar echoes reflected by the layered structure in polar mesosphere where polar mesosphere summer echoes used to occur can interpret partially the phenomenon of PMSE. In other words, reflection may play an important role in the occurrence of PMSE.展开更多
In this paper,an analytical model is used to analyze the modulated polar mesospheric winter echoes(PMWE).The winter parameters were introduced to simulate the effects of different parameters during the artificial elec...In this paper,an analytical model is used to analyze the modulated polar mesospheric winter echoes(PMWE).The winter parameters were introduced to simulate the effects of different parameters during the artificial electron heating of PMWE.The important role of the charged dust particle in the creation of PMWE is confirmed again.It is found that during the heating of PMWE,the increases of the dust size,dust charge,electron temperature,initial electron density,and ion-neutral collision frequency cause the increase of the electron density irregularity,and hence the PMWE strength.However,with increasing the dust density,the electron density irregularity and the PMWE strength decrease.展开更多
The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association(EISCAT) Very High Frequency(224 MHz) Radar has been used to investigate the aspect sensitivity of polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE) in the period 13–15 July 2...The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association(EISCAT) Very High Frequency(224 MHz) Radar has been used to investigate the aspect sensitivity of polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE) in the period 13–15 July 2010. The aspect sensitivity of PMSE using this radar and at such a high frequency has not been previously reported. Data concerning the aspect sensitivity of PMSE were collected by traversing the antenna beam from the zenith direction, and comparing the received power. Surprisingly, as the intensity received by the oblique beam was often larger than that of the vertical beam, suggesting the presence of tilted dusty plasma layers as a potential cause, a theoretical model was developed to confirm the existence of these layers and their formation process. The experimental results and theoretical model presented help elucidate the structural properties of the possible generation mechanism of strong radar echoes in the polar summer mesosphere region.展开更多
According to the recent studies,the gravitational wave(GW)echoes are expected to be generated by quark stars composed of ultrastiff quark matter.The ultrastiff equations of state(EOS)for quark matter were usually obta...According to the recent studies,the gravitational wave(GW)echoes are expected to be generated by quark stars composed of ultrastiff quark matter.The ultrastiff equations of state(EOS)for quark matter were usually obtained either by a simple bag model with artificially assigned sound velocity or by employing interacting strange quark matter(SQM)depicted by simple reparameterization and rescaling.In this study,we investigate GW echoes with EOSs for SQM in the framework of the equivparticle model with density-dependent quark masses and pairing effects.We conclude that strange quark stars(SQSs)can be sufficiently compact to possess a photon sphere capable of generating GW echoes with frequencies in the range of approximately 20 kHz.However,SQSs cannot account for the observed 72 Hz signal in GW170817 event.Furthermore,we determined that quark-pairing effects play a crucial role in enabling SQSs to satisfy the necessary conditions for producing these types of echoes.展开更多
Radar echoes intensity of polar mesosphere summer echoes（PMSE） is greatly affected by the temperature of dusty plasma and the frequency of electromagnetic wave about the radar.In this paper,a new method is developed...Radar echoes intensity of polar mesosphere summer echoes（PMSE） is greatly affected by the temperature of dusty plasma and the frequency of electromagnetic wave about the radar.In this paper,a new method is developed to explain the active experiment results of PMSE.The theory of wave propagation in a layered media is used to study the propagation characteristics of an electromagnetic wave at different electron temperatures.The simulation results show that the variation tendency of the reflected power fraction almost agrees with the results observed by radar in the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association（EISCAT）.The radar echoes intensity of PMSE greatly decreases with the increase of the radio frequency and the enhancement of the electron temperature.展开更多
A major issue in radar quantitative precipitation estimation is the contamination of radar echoes by non-meteorological targets such as ground clutter,chaff,clear air echoes etc.In this study,a fuzzy logic algorithm f...A major issue in radar quantitative precipitation estimation is the contamination of radar echoes by non-meteorological targets such as ground clutter,chaff,clear air echoes etc.In this study,a fuzzy logic algorithm for the identification of non-meteorological echoes is developed using optimized membership functions and weights for the dual-polarization radar located at Mount Sobaek.For selected precipitation and non-meteorological events,the characteristics of the precipitation and non-meteorological echo are derived by the probability density functions of five fuzzy parameters as functions of reflectivity values.The membership functions and weights are then determined by these density functions.Finally,the nonmeteorological echoes are identified by combining the membership functions and weights.The performance is qualitatively evaluated by long-term rain accumulation.The detection accuracy of the fuzzy logic algorithm is calculated using the probability of detection（POD）,false alarm rate（FAR）,and clutter–signal ratio（CSR）.In addition,the issues in using filtered dual-polarization data are alleviated.展开更多
For pulse Doppler radars,the widely used method for identifying second-trip echoes(STs)in the signal processing level yields significant misidentification in regions of high turbulence and severe wind shear.In the dat...For pulse Doppler radars,the widely used method for identifying second-trip echoes(STs)in the signal processing level yields significant misidentification in regions of high turbulence and severe wind shear.In the data processing level,although the novel algorithm for ST identification does not yield significant misidentification in specific regions,its overall identification performance is not ideal.Therefore,this paper proposes a hybrid method for the identification of STs using phase modulation(signal processing)and polarimetric technology(data processing).Through this approach,most of the STs are removed,whereas most of the first-trip echoes(FTs)remain untouched.Compared with the existing method using a signal quality index filter with an optimized threshold,the hybrid method exhibits superior performance(Heidke skill scores of 0.98 versus 0.88)on independent test datasets,especially in high-turbulence and severe-wind-shear regions,for which misidentification is significantly reduced.展开更多
Based on cloud-ground lightning data and Doppler weather radar echo products, both thecharacteristics and the relations of lightning and radar echoes for strong convective rainstorms over Yunnanare analyzed during the...Based on cloud-ground lightning data and Doppler weather radar echo products, both thecharacteristics and the relations of lightning and radar echoes for strong convective rainstorms over Yunnanare analyzed during the flood season of 2007. The results show that most rainstorms are convective in whichlightning is mostly negative and the negative lightning number accounts for more than 90% of the total.Although the correlation between precipitation and the lightning number is small on the rainstorm day, thelarge day-lightning frequency usually produces heavy precipitation. Hourly evolution of precipitation andlightning frequency shows peak-style characteristics. And their evolution is very coherent in strongrainstorm, but lightning often occurs before precipitation, whose peaks are in phase with or 1-to-2-hourlagged behind that of lightning frequency. Meanwhile the peaks of positive frequency are in phase with orfall behind that of precipitation. When the wind field is heterogeneous in radial velocity, it is conducive toboth the development of convection echoes and occurrence of lightning. Strong lightning-producingconvective rainstorms correspond to strong echo fields and usually result in reflectivity above 30 dBZ andecho top ET of more than 9 km, respectively.展开更多
In this work,for the first time,we have analyzed and compared the responses of polar mesosphere winter echoes(PMWE)and their summer counterpart,polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE),to high-frequency(HF)heating in term...In this work,for the first time,we have analyzed and compared the responses of polar mesosphere winter echoes(PMWE)and their summer counterpart,polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE),to high-frequency(HF)heating in terms of modulated characteristics(i.e.,backscatter intensity reduction,recovery,and overshoot).Both PMWE and PMSE observations were from the same site(Tromsφ,Norway;69.6°N,19.2°E)and radar(EISCAT[European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association]very high frequency,224 MHz).The heating patterns of both PMWE and PMSE were found to be similar;however,PMSE was more greatly affected by HF heating.Polar mesosphere summer echoes showed recovery and overshoot more frequently than did PMWE.In addition,the mean recovery and overshoot of PMSE were greater than those of PMWE.The associated electron temperature enhancement was estimated for both PMWE and PMSE and showed that,compared with PMWE,the electron temperature enhancement was more significant in PMSE.The strong heating effects on PMSE may be due to the considerable increase in electron temperature.展开更多
Based on the CINRAD Doppler radar data in Guangzhou and the lightning data in 2004 by power suppliers of Guangdong, statistical study is done by overlaying lightning＇s position on radar＇s echo. The result shows the ...Based on the CINRAD Doppler radar data in Guangzhou and the lightning data in 2004 by power suppliers of Guangdong, statistical study is done by overlaying lightning＇s position on radar＇s echo. The result shows the followings. The concentrated period in which more negative lightning occurred at the middle levels （2 - 14 km）, where radar echo was moderate （12 - 45 dBz）, rather than at the low levels with the weakest echoes or at high levels with the strongest echoes. At levels 3 - 11 km, where the radar echo was between 10 dBz and 35 dBz, the area of negative lightning was much larger in central Guangdong than in the rest of the province. At levels 0.5 - 7 krn where the radar echoes were between 44 dBz and 51 dBz, the probability for a point to have negative lightning varies from 0.4 to 0.7.展开更多
Based on the puzzle data of radar reflectivity in and around Jiangxi Province,the slope profile method and the polar coordinate method were used to display the vertical profiles of radar echoes between any two points....Based on the puzzle data of radar reflectivity in and around Jiangxi Province,the slope profile method and the polar coordinate method were used to display the vertical profiles of radar echoes between any two points.The technical route of extracting radar echo profile data by the slope method was proposed and applied to the short-term early warning platform of Jiangxi Province.A thunderstorm weather process occurring from Dongxiang to Wannian on September 23,2018 was analyzed by radar echo profiles.At present,the program has been applied to the short-term early warning platform of Jiangxi Province based on B/S architecture.The automatic drawing and display of radar echo profiles of any two points is practical for forecasters to quickly and effectively track short-term strong convection weather.展开更多
Using China New Generation Weather Radar （CINRAD） level-Ⅱ data, the original algorithms for removing isol-ated non-meteorological echoes and ground clutters in radar data, which have been applied to Weather Surveil...Using China New Generation Weather Radar （CINRAD） level-Ⅱ data, the original algorithms for removing isol-ated non-meteorological echoes and ground clutters in radar data, which have been applied to Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler （WSR-88D） in the USA and Severe Weather Automatic Nowcast （SWAN） system in China, are modified and improved. To remove isolated non-meteorological echoes, the new algorithm introduces a constraint parameter （Po） to distinguish whether a window of 5 x 5 points is isolated as external echoes. A statistical analysis of 150 radar scans （5 cases, with each case comprising 30 scans） under three different echo types （small-scale convec-tion, typhoon, and large-scale synoptic system） shows that the constraint parameter Po ≤ 0.167 is suitable for remov- ing isolated non-meteorological echoes while preserving the edge of meteorological echoes. A new parameter, NDZ, which promotes the ability of the algorithm to identify the ground clutters appearing at two adjacent elevation angles, is constructed based on the vertical continuity of reflectivity. These improved algorithms are tested for four cases （three cases of isolated non-meteorological echoes and one case of ground clutters）. Based on the statistics of 232 volume scans of radar data （on a temporal resolution of 1 h） measured at Nanchang station from 0000 UTC 5 to 1600 UTC 14 March 2015, it is found that the improved algorithms not only eliminate most （over 95% under clear-sky conditions） of the isolated non-meteorological echoes and ground clutters （including those appearing at two adjacent elevation angles）, but also well preserve the structure of meteorological echoes （storms）.展开更多
文摘This research study represents an ongoing research effort on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with a focus on anomalous propagation of radar echo returns, mirroring established theoretical constructs of gravitational effects on light, which occur at higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths within the Electromagnetic Spectrum. These influences are also illustrated through other technologies, including Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and the chromatic effects captured by hyperspectral cameras. This research addresses the complexities of interpreting unusual propagation patterns, such as Long Delay Echoes (LDE) and unexpected Field Echoes (UFE), which disrupt the anticipated propagation and echo protocols, thereby challenging our understanding and comprehension of radio transmission norms that may be influenced by a form of quantum entanglement. The paper posits a significant and largely unexamined correlation between these phenomena in the context of UAP activity, highlighting the urgent need for further research and innovative strategies in navigation technology and environmental monitoring to investigate these potential occurrences, which have remained enigmatic for nearly a century. Radar signals are vulnerable to intricate dynamics that can lead to Unusual Field Echoes (UFE), resulting in emergent anomalies, such as Multiple echo returns and LDEs. This study employed a 3-centimeter marine-based X-band radar operating in two scan geometries and a portable short-range millimeter-wave Doppler radar system. An analysis of these radar echoes over a two-year study identified signal propagation that deviated from navigational standards on Plan Position Indicators (PPI). This paper explores and investigates the potential impacts of UAP on radar transmission routes. Examining these complexities makes a case for an enhanced understanding of the interactions between established technological factors and elusive aerial phenomena.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(52239006,41975001,41930972)Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region(2022GXNSFBA035565)。
文摘Based on previously released data,this paper first presented the criteria for recognizing bow echoes and divided their life cycle into three stages:the development stage,the mature stage,and the attenuation stage.Based on Doppler weather radar data during 2011-2020,43 bow echo events(including 54 individual bow echoes)in western South China were identified.The spatial and temporal distributions,formation and dissipation modes of these bow echoes,and the severe weather they caused were statistically analyzed.The results show that:(1)The bow echo events were unevenly distributed year-to-year,but all occurred from March to July,with the highest in April and May and the lowest in July.The period from night to early morning was found to be the main period for bow echo generation and intensification.(2)A banded area from Hechi City on the southeastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Wuzhou City in southeast Guangxi was identified as a high-incidence area of bow echoes.The length of bow echoes was correlated with their life cycle.(3)The origins of the bow echoes could be divided into five locations,most of which were in the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.After entering western South China,their moving paths were categorized into three types,among which most bow echoes moved southeastward,generally because of the effect of cold air.Specifically,bow echoes generally moved eastward when cold air was weak or in the warm zone.Meanwhile,the fewest bow echoes moved northeastward.(4)Four modes of bow echo formation were identified:linearly organized,broken areal,linearly merging,and broken line.Dissipation could also be classified into four types.(5)The probability of convective weather generated by a bow echo was largest in the mature stage.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFC1506605)Sichuan Provincial Department of Education Scientific research projects(Grant No.16ZB0211)Chengdu University of Information Technology research and development projects(Grant No.CRF201705)。
文摘Millimeter-wave cloud radar(MMCR)provides the capability of detecting the features of micro particles inside clouds and describing the internal microphysical structure of the clouds.Therefore,MMCR has been widely applied in cloud observations.However,due to the influence of non-meteorological factors such as insects,the cloud observations are often contaminated by non-meteorological echoes in the clear air,known as clear-air echoes.It is of great significance to automatically identify the clear-air echoes in order to extract effective meteorological information from the complex weather background.The characteristics of clear-air echoes are studied here by combining data from four devices:an MMCR,a laser-ceilometer,an L-band radiosonde,and an all-sky camera.In addition,a new algorithm,which includes feature extraction,feature selection,and classification,is proposed to achieve the automatic identification of clear-air echoes.The results show that the recognition algorithm is fairly satisfied in both simple and complex weather conditions.The recognition accuracy can reach up to 95.86%for the simple cases when cloud echoes and clear-air echoes are separate,and 88.38%for the complicated cases when low cloud echoes and clear-air echoes are mixed.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘In underwater target detection, the bottom reverberation has some of the same properties as the target echo, which has a great impact on the performance. It is essential to study the difference between target echo and reverberation. In this paper, based on the unique advantage of human listening ability on objects distinction, the Gammatone filter is taken as the auditory model. In addition, time-frequency perception features and auditory spectral features are extracted for active sonar target echo and bottom reverberation separation. The features of the experimental data have good concentration characteristics in the same class and have a large amount of differences between different classes, which shows that this method can effectively distinguish between the target echo and reverberation.
基金This research was funded by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(no.2019YJ0188)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.61671116,61771096,11905026)+2 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(no.2019YFA0210202)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(nos.ZYGX2019Z006,ZYGX2019J012)We are grateful to the EISCAT Scientific Association for providing the PMSE experimental data(http://portal.eiscat.se/schedule/schedule.cgi).The EISCAT Scientific Association is supported by China(China Research Institute of Radio Wave Propagation),Finland(Suomen Akatemia of Finland),Japan(the National Institute of Polar Research of Japan and Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research at Nagoya University),Norway(Norges Forskningsråd of Norway),Sweden(the Swedish Research Council),and the UK(the Natural Environment Research Council).We also acknowledge the China Scholarship Council.
文摘Polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSEs)are very strong radar echoes in the polar mesopause in local summer.Here we present the frequency dependence of the volume reflectivity and the effect of energetic particle precipitation on modulated PMSEs by using PMSEs observations carried out by European Incoherent SCATter(EISCAT)heating equipment simultaneously with very high frequency(VHF)radar and ultra high frequency(UHF)radar on 12 July 2007.According to the experimental observations,the PMSEs occurrence rate at VHF was much higher than that at UHF,and the altitude of the PMSEs maximum observed at VHF was higher than that at UHF.Overlapping regions were observed by VHF radar between high energetic particle precipitation and the PMSEs.In addition,highfrequency heating had a very limited impact on PMSEs when the UHF electron density was enhanced because of energetic particle precipitation.In addition,an updated qualitative method was used to study the relationship between volume reflectivity and frequency.The volume reflectivity was found to be inversely proportional to the fourth power of radar frequency.The theoretical and experimental results provide a definitive data foundation for further analysis and investigation of the physical mechanism of PMSEs.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 41104097 and 41304119)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant nos. ZYGX2015J039, ZYGX2015J037, and ZYGX2015J041)
文摘The observations of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) were carried out using the sporadic data of EISCAT UHF radar during the summer season from 2004 to 2015. There were 25 h of PMSE echoes with EISCAT UHF radar. PMSE echoes were mostly observed only during the early morning and fore-noon time. Moreover, the PMSE echoes are positively correlated with Lymanα radiation, but the correlation is non-significant. The occurrence of PMSE echoes in the early morning and fore-noon time and there positive correlation with Lymanαradiation suggests that solar radiations might be one important factor for PMSE echoes in this study. Very weak positive, but statistically non-significant correlation is found between PMSE occurrence rate and the local geomagneticK-indices. It is found that there is a matching between the variation in the occurrence rate of PMSE and noctilucent clouds (NLC) up to some extent and they are positively correlated. This positive correlation might support the earlier proposed idea about the role of ice particle size in producing PMSE echoes at higher frequencies.
基金Foundation item:Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51279033)Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China(Grant No.F201346)
文摘Underwater acoustic scattering echoes have time–space structures and are aliasing in time and frequency domains.Different series of echoes properties are not identified when incident angle is unknown.This article investigates variations in target echoes of monostatic sonar to address this problem.The mother wavelet with similar structures has been proposed on the basis of preprocessing signal waveform using matched filter,and the theoretical expressions between delay factor and incident angle are derived in the wavelet domain.Analysis of simulation data and experimental results in free-field pool show that this method can effectively separate geometrical scattering components of target echoes.The time delay estimation obtained from geometrical echoes at a single angle is consistent with target geometrical features,which provides a basis for object recognition without angle information.The findings provide valuable insights for analyzing elastic scattering echoes in actual ocean environment.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.40831062, 60971034)the Scientific Research Starting Foundation of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (No.Y02002010401066)
文摘Polar mesosphere summer echoes （PMSE） are very strong radar echoes from alti- tudes close to the polar summer mesopause. The data from sounding rocket campaigns indicate that the radar signal to noise ratio （SNR）, electron density and dust charge density of polar meso- sphere in summer show obvious layered structure. In this paper the theory of wave propagation in layered media is used to study the reflectance and SNR at each layer in polar mesosphere. The calculated SNR using theory of dusty plasma is found in good agreement with the experimental result, which may imply that the intensity of the radar echoes reflected by the layered structure in polar mesosphere where polar mesosphere summer echoes used to occur can interpret partially the phenomenon of PMSE. In other words, reflection may play an important role in the occurrence of PMSE.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 61671116 and No. 11905026Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grants No. ZYGX2019Z006 and No. ZYGX2019J012。
文摘In this paper,an analytical model is used to analyze the modulated polar mesospheric winter echoes(PMWE).The winter parameters were introduced to simulate the effects of different parameters during the artificial electron heating of PMWE.The important role of the charged dust particle in the creation of PMWE is confirmed again.It is found that during the heating of PMWE,the increases of the dust size,dust charge,electron temperature,initial electron density,and ion-neutral collision frequency cause the increase of the electron density irregularity,and hence the PMWE strength.However,with increasing the dust density,the electron density irregularity and the PMWE strength decrease.
基金supported by CRIRP (China)NIPR (Japan)+3 种基金NFR (Sweden)PPARC (UK)RCN (Norway)SA (Finland)
文摘The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association(EISCAT) Very High Frequency(224 MHz) Radar has been used to investigate the aspect sensitivity of polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE) in the period 13–15 July 2010. The aspect sensitivity of PMSE using this radar and at such a high frequency has not been previously reported. Data concerning the aspect sensitivity of PMSE were collected by traversing the antenna beam from the zenith direction, and comparing the received power. Surprisingly, as the intensity received by the oblique beam was often larger than that of the vertical beam, suggesting the presence of tilted dusty plasma layers as a potential cause, a theoretical model was developed to confirm the existence of these layers and their formation process. The experimental results and theoretical model presented help elucidate the structural properties of the possible generation mechanism of strong radar echoes in the polar summer mesosphere region.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12005005,12205093,12275234,and 11875052)the National SKA Program of China(No.2020SKA0120300)+3 种基金the Hunan Provincial Nature Science Foundation of China(No.2021JJ40188)the Scientific Research Start-up Fund of Talent Introduction of Suqian University(No.Xiao2022XRC061)Suqian Key Laboratory of High Performance Composite Materials(M202109)Suqian University Multi functional Material R&D Platform(2021pt04).
文摘According to the recent studies,the gravitational wave(GW)echoes are expected to be generated by quark stars composed of ultrastiff quark matter.The ultrastiff equations of state(EOS)for quark matter were usually obtained either by a simple bag model with artificially assigned sound velocity or by employing interacting strange quark matter(SQM)depicted by simple reparameterization and rescaling.In this study,we investigate GW echoes with EOSs for SQM in the framework of the equivparticle model with density-dependent quark masses and pairing effects.We conclude that strange quark stars(SQSs)can be sufficiently compact to possess a photon sphere capable of generating GW echoes with frequencies in the range of approximately 20 kHz.However,SQSs cannot account for the observed 72 Hz signal in GW170817 event.Furthermore,we determined that quark-pairing effects play a crucial role in enabling SQSs to satisfy the necessary conditions for producing these types of echoes.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41104097 and 41304119)by the National Key Laboratoryof Electromagnetic Environment,China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation(CRIRP)
文摘Radar echoes intensity of polar mesosphere summer echoes（PMSE） is greatly affected by the temperature of dusty plasma and the frequency of electromagnetic wave about the radar.In this paper,a new method is developed to explain the active experiment results of PMSE.The theory of wave propagation in a layered media is used to study the propagation characteristics of an electromagnetic wave at different electron temperatures.The simulation results show that the variation tendency of the reflected power fraction almost agrees with the results observed by radar in the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association（EISCAT）.The radar echoes intensity of PMSE greatly decreases with the increase of the radio frequency and the enhancement of the electron temperature.
基金supported by a grant(14AWMP-B079364-01) from Water Management Research Program funded by Ministry of Land,Infrastructure and Transport of Korean government
文摘A major issue in radar quantitative precipitation estimation is the contamination of radar echoes by non-meteorological targets such as ground clutter,chaff,clear air echoes etc.In this study,a fuzzy logic algorithm for the identification of non-meteorological echoes is developed using optimized membership functions and weights for the dual-polarization radar located at Mount Sobaek.For selected precipitation and non-meteorological events,the characteristics of the precipitation and non-meteorological echo are derived by the probability density functions of five fuzzy parameters as functions of reflectivity values.The membership functions and weights are then determined by these density functions.Finally,the nonmeteorological echoes are identified by combining the membership functions and weights.The performance is qualitatively evaluated by long-term rain accumulation.The detection accuracy of the fuzzy logic algorithm is calculated using the probability of detection（POD）,false alarm rate（FAR）,and clutter–signal ratio（CSR）.In addition,the issues in using filtered dual-polarization data are alleviated.
基金This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2017YFC1502102,2017YFC1502103,2018YFC1506100,and 2018YFC1506102)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41430427).
文摘For pulse Doppler radars,the widely used method for identifying second-trip echoes(STs)in the signal processing level yields significant misidentification in regions of high turbulence and severe wind shear.In the data processing level,although the novel algorithm for ST identification does not yield significant misidentification in specific regions,its overall identification performance is not ideal.Therefore,this paper proposes a hybrid method for the identification of STs using phase modulation(signal processing)and polarimetric technology(data processing).Through this approach,most of the STs are removed,whereas most of the first-trip echoes(FTs)remain untouched.Compared with the existing method using a signal quality index filter with an optimized threshold,the hybrid method exhibits superior performance(Heidke skill scores of 0.98 versus 0.88)on independent test datasets,especially in high-turbulence and severe-wind-shear regions,for which misidentification is significantly reduced.
基金Technological and Planning Project of Yunnan Province(2009CA014)National Natural Science Foundation of China(41265001)
文摘Based on cloud-ground lightning data and Doppler weather radar echo products, both thecharacteristics and the relations of lightning and radar echoes for strong convective rainstorms over Yunnanare analyzed during the flood season of 2007. The results show that most rainstorms are convective in whichlightning is mostly negative and the negative lightning number accounts for more than 90% of the total.Although the correlation between precipitation and the lightning number is small on the rainstorm day, thelarge day-lightning frequency usually produces heavy precipitation. Hourly evolution of precipitation andlightning frequency shows peak-style characteristics. And their evolution is very coherent in strongrainstorm, but lightning often occurs before precipitation, whose peaks are in phase with or 1-to-2-hourlagged behind that of lightning frequency. Meanwhile the peaks of positive frequency are in phase with orfall behind that of precipitation. When the wind field is heterogeneous in radial velocity, it is conducive toboth the development of convection echoes and occurrence of lightning. Strong lightning-producingconvective rainstorms correspond to strong echo fields and usually result in reflectivity above 30 dBZ andecho top ET of more than 9 km, respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62271113,62201529)the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment(No.202102010)the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(No.2022NSFSC1848).
文摘In this work,for the first time,we have analyzed and compared the responses of polar mesosphere winter echoes(PMWE)and their summer counterpart,polar mesosphere summer echoes(PMSE),to high-frequency(HF)heating in terms of modulated characteristics(i.e.,backscatter intensity reduction,recovery,and overshoot).Both PMWE and PMSE observations were from the same site(Tromsφ,Norway;69.6°N,19.2°E)and radar(EISCAT[European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association]very high frequency,224 MHz).The heating patterns of both PMWE and PMSE were found to be similar;however,PMSE was more greatly affected by HF heating.Polar mesosphere summer echoes showed recovery and overshoot more frequently than did PMWE.In addition,the mean recovery and overshoot of PMSE were greater than those of PMWE.The associated electron temperature enhancement was estimated for both PMWE and PMSE and showed that,compared with PMWE,the electron temperature enhancement was more significant in PMSE.The strong heating effects on PMSE may be due to the considerable increase in electron temperature.
文摘Based on the CINRAD Doppler radar data in Guangzhou and the lightning data in 2004 by power suppliers of Guangdong, statistical study is done by overlaying lightning＇s position on radar＇s echo. The result shows the followings. The concentrated period in which more negative lightning occurred at the middle levels （2 - 14 km）, where radar echo was moderate （12 - 45 dBz）, rather than at the low levels with the weakest echoes or at high levels with the strongest echoes. At levels 3 - 11 km, where the radar echo was between 10 dBz and 35 dBz, the area of negative lightning was much larger in central Guangdong than in the rest of the province. At levels 0.5 - 7 krn where the radar echoes were between 44 dBz and 51 dBz, the probability for a point to have negative lightning varies from 0.4 to 0.7.
基金Supported by the Project of Jiangxi Meteorological Bureau and Jiangxi Department of Science and Technology for Training of Young Talents in Jiangxi Province in 2017"Research on the Improvement of Cross Correlation Tracking Method(COTREC) Based on Continuous Equations"Key Research and Development Plan Project of Jiangxi Province,China(20171BBG70004)
文摘Based on the puzzle data of radar reflectivity in and around Jiangxi Province,the slope profile method and the polar coordinate method were used to display the vertical profiles of radar echoes between any two points.The technical route of extracting radar echo profile data by the slope method was proposed and applied to the short-term early warning platform of Jiangxi Province.A thunderstorm weather process occurring from Dongxiang to Wannian on September 23,2018 was analyzed by radar echo profiles.At present,the program has been applied to the short-term early warning platform of Jiangxi Province based on B/S architecture.The automatic drawing and display of radar echo profiles of any two points is practical for forecasters to quickly and effectively track short-term strong convection weather.
基金Supported by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology project(20171BBG70004)Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather,Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences(2016LASW-N11)National Natural Science Foundation of China(41575098)
文摘Using China New Generation Weather Radar （CINRAD） level-Ⅱ data, the original algorithms for removing isol-ated non-meteorological echoes and ground clutters in radar data, which have been applied to Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler （WSR-88D） in the USA and Severe Weather Automatic Nowcast （SWAN） system in China, are modified and improved. To remove isolated non-meteorological echoes, the new algorithm introduces a constraint parameter （Po） to distinguish whether a window of 5 x 5 points is isolated as external echoes. A statistical analysis of 150 radar scans （5 cases, with each case comprising 30 scans） under three different echo types （small-scale convec-tion, typhoon, and large-scale synoptic system） shows that the constraint parameter Po ≤ 0.167 is suitable for remov- ing isolated non-meteorological echoes while preserving the edge of meteorological echoes. A new parameter, NDZ, which promotes the ability of the algorithm to identify the ground clutters appearing at two adjacent elevation angles, is constructed based on the vertical continuity of reflectivity. These improved algorithms are tested for four cases （three cases of isolated non-meteorological echoes and one case of ground clutters）. Based on the statistics of 232 volume scans of radar data （on a temporal resolution of 1 h） measured at Nanchang station from 0000 UTC 5 to 1600 UTC 14 March 2015, it is found that the improved algorithms not only eliminate most （over 95% under clear-sky conditions） of the isolated non-meteorological echoes and ground clutters （including those appearing at two adjacent elevation angles）, but also well preserve the structure of meteorological echoes （storms）.
