At 100 miles range, radar can detect variations of 10^4 in rainfall intensity; the signals cover 64 db in power of which many radars can display less than 16 db at a time. Equipment has been designed and studied which displays successive factors of signal power, corrected in a known way for distance, as equally discernible steps of grey. One gain control adjusts the factors to display at a given time all or a chosen fraction of the 64 db. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112853 |
| Date | January 1960 |
| Creators | Legg, Thomas H. |
| Contributors | Marshall, J.S. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Meteorology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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