Bird Migration Echoes Observed by Polarimetric Radar

Haruya MINDA; Fumie A. FURUZAWA; Shinsuke SATOH; Kenji NAKAMURA

doi:10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.6.2085

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516

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Bird Migration Echoes Observed by Polarimetric Radar

Haruya MINDA, Fumie A. FURUZAWA, Shinsuke SATOH, Kenji NAKAMURA

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Keywords: polarimetric radar, weather radar, clear-air radar echo, bird echo, ornithology

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2008 Volume E91.B Issue 6 Pages 2085-2089

DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.6.2085

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Abstract

A C-band polarimetric radar on Okinawa Island successfully observed large-scale bird migrations over the western Pacific Ocean. The birds generated interesting polarimetric signatures. This paper describes the signatures and speculates bird behavior.

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