There is no "the" weather radar. Weather radars are a class of radars which can be used for gathering data on weather conditions.
refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radar
The most commonly used weather radar at the moment is Pulse Doppler Radar. There was no 1 inventor of the PDR, so it was likely developed either by corporations or research labs. Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_radar#History for discussion on the origins of the more basic Doppler Radar.
There is some debate as to the actual inventor. The American Association of Engineers credits John Barker as the first person to use the doppler effect in speed detection in 1947. Decatur Electronics has tried to claim Bryce Brown invented it while working there in 1954, however the US Patent office has no record from them. John Barker holds patent #2629865 filed in 1946.
Watson-Watt was the Scottish physicist who developed the radar locating of aircraft in England. He was born in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, educated at St Andrews University in Scotland, and taught at Dundee University. In 1917, he worked at the British Meteorological Office, where he designed devices to locate thunderstorms. Watson-Watt coined the phrase "ionosphere" in 1926. He was appointed as the director of radio research at the British National Physical Laboratory in 1935, where he completed his research into aircraft locating devices. Watson-Watt's other contributions include a cathode-ray direction finder used to study atmospheric phenomena, research in electromagnetic radiation, and inventions used for flight safety.
Radar in general was one of those things that got invented in small steps by various individuals.
Some notable steps would be:
Chain Home...Watson Watt
Chain Home Low...Watson Watt.
Seetakt marine gunlaying radar... Hans Hollmann
H2S airborne radar...British Military.
Cavity Magnetron...Manchester (England) University.
Canadian, Benjamin Franklin Tibbet invented the first compound marine engine.
The earliest sightings recorded were in world war II.
Radar was invented and first used during the second world war. It is still, very much in use today.It's original use was to detect, and thus prepare for, fighter aircraft and bombers.Ships and aircraft use radar for navigation and collision avoidance.Air traffic control use radar to keep track of aircraft and keep them safe.Weather stations use radar to detect rain clouds.Radar is also being used in, experimental, driverless cars.
A radar engineer works with radar. They have design, develop, install, and test a radar.
Radar range is the distance of the object from the radar. Radar bearing is the direction of the object in relation to the radar. As radar is primarily used for ranging, the range information may be more important than the bearing.
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Watson Watt invented Chain Home which was central to winning the Battle of Britain. Hans Hollman developed Seetakt marine radar which was instrumantal in the destruction of the mighty HMS Hood by DKMS Bismark..
As far as I know, radar was invented by a Hungarian scientist named Zoltan Bay. That radar was first used in World War II by the British troops.
1935
Radar was first put on ships during WW2.
The newly invented radar.
You need both a radar antenna and a GPS radar if this is marine then the radar antenna will perhaps include a Receiver and Transmitter as well and the GPS maybe a mushroom shape
1935
yes it was
At the University of Oklahoma
Christian Doppler
1887