Preface
Since the \"good old days\" when radar was first used to
detect storms until now， radar has changed from a research
tool used ofily by a few specialists to a tool used by many
people on a daily basis. This transformation from an exotic
and expensive research tool into a basic source of information
for the masses has occurred for several reasons. One is
simply the relative proliferation of radars across the country.
Another is in the ability to communicate the data from place
to place. Still another is that the information provided by
radar is simply so useful that it is foolish not to use it for
many people.
As the field of radar meteorology changed over the
years， so， too， has the typical radar meteorologist. Based on
photographs from some of the early radar conferences and
actual observations of real， live radar meteorologists
presenting papers at a number of radar conferences， I have
watched the changes that have taken place over the years.
Figure 1， first presented at the 22nd Conference on Radar
Meteorology at Zurich， Switzerland (Rinehart， 1984)， shows
what the well-dressed radar meteorologist looked like over the
years. Based on a quantitative analysis (least squares linear
regression) on the amount of clothing and facial hair as a
function of time， I was able to forecast what the well-dressed
radar meteorologist of 2006 AD would look like. This
forecast is shown in Fig. 2.
There is a vast and rich number of publications in the
field of radar meteorology. Much of this literature results
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