The CLEOPATRA project aims to develop a software procedure that can simulate weather phenomena as they appear to airborne weather radars. It will start from a high level description of the weather phenomenon and finish with obtaining the polarimetric I/Q signals at radar output.
This output will be the input to a test bench (a processing system simulation software), being developed in a related project devoted to the development of new improved weather detection algorithms.
Meteorological, electromagnetic and weather radar modeling issues are addressed, with the goal of developing a new class of simulator that can combine meteorological scenario description at mesoscale level (typical of environment simulators) with the capability of generating accurate time series for the raw signals (typical of microphysical simulators), while keeping complexity and computational effort manageable levels.