ELectra DOppler RAdar (ELDORA) PLEASE NOTE THAT ELDORA IS NOT
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR DEPLOYMENT ELDORA is an airborne, dual
beam, meteorological research radar developed jointly by NCAR
and France's Centre de Recherches en Physique de L'Environnement
Terrestre et Planetaire (CRPE.) ELDORA's first deployment was to
TOGA COARE in the Solomon Islands in January and February 1993.
ELDORA’s mobility allows observations of clouds, convective
systems and storms over remote regions. ELDORA mounts on a
Lockheed P-3 aircraft, operated by the Naval Research Lab (NRL).
Its two antennas extend back from the tail of the aircraft and
spin about the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. One antenna
points slightly ahead of the aircraft and one slightly aft. As
the aircraft translates the antennas through space ELDORA traces
two conical helixes through the atmosphere, essentially
observing all of the atmosphere with two separate looks within
50-100 kilometers of the aircraft. The fore and aft looks from
ELDORA yield two wind co