Weather Radar Fundamentals


Doppler Velocity Measurements

Base velocity image showing shades of green east of the radar and shades of orange west of the radar.  Further northwest from the radar, there is a small region of strong outbound velocities in red adjacent to a small region of strong inbound velocities in blue.

In this chapter we will look at how radial velocity is measured and calculated and how to analyze environmental wind fields and storm-scale circulations using velocity images.