Table 3 Radar parameters for the RASS measurements with EAR

Range resolution

150 m

Minimum height

1050 m

Beam steering

5 beams, depending on 3-D ray-tracing results

IPP (beam steering interval)

200 µs

Number of coherent integration

16

Number of incoherent integration

5

Number of FFT points

512

Pulse code

8-bit optimum code of Spano and Ghebrebrhan (1996)

Number of height samples

150

Duration

41.0 s