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2006-10-13 11:25:24 · 3 answers · asked by kissd07 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
There is really no 'hurricae" radar per se. To day, dopler radar is used to track the hurricanes.
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892--1973)
Watson-Watt was the Scottish physicist who developed the radar.
Doppler RADAR is named after Christian Andreas Doppler. Doppler was an Austrian physicist who first described
in 1842, how the observed frequency of light and sound waves was affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector.
This phenomenon became known as the Doppler effect.
2006-10-13 11:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As somebody correctly says, Sir Robert Watson-Watt was a radar pioneer. Back then, about the time of WWII, the first radars used what we'd now call VHF frequencies, and weather doesn't show up on them. To show cloud droplets and rain, you need microwave frequencies, but even during WWII, Watson-Watt was working on these.
2006-10-13 20:08:12 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Do a search on ' Doppler radar '.
2006-10-13 18:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋