1 Introduction

During the second world war, when radio engineers noticed that aircrafts were interfering with communication signals of the US Navy, they came up with a brilliant idea of using pulses of radio waves for target detection (Rinehart 1991), and thus RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was born. As the technology of radars developed, the resolution and detection capabilities also improved, leading to better detection of aircrafts. When military radar operators realized that the large patches of unknown echoes “cluttering” their observations were, in fact, meteorological in origin, meteorology personnel took notice, and a whole new application of radars emerged.

References

Rinehart, Ronald. 1991. Radar for Meteorologists. University of North Dakota, Office of the President.