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Old 14th March 2014 | 19:06
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VinRouge
 
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Frequency and prf are related to target size. As rain droplets (detected by wx radar) are pretty small, it needs relatively high frequency and prf to detect weather.

Atc radar, at least in primary radar sense, has a much longer wavelength as it's targets are, well, much bigger!
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