For the airborne weather radar signal processing, the intensity of the meteorological targets is represented by the physical quantity called reflectivity factor. When observing the middle-or long-range meteorological targets at low altitude from a high-altitude radar platform, due to the incomplete beam filling, the retrieval result of the reflectivity factor is much less than the actual value. In this paper, we firstly introduce a beam filling coefficient into the weather radar equation and then present its estimation method based on the real-time radar operating parameters. The validity of the proposed method is then verified by processing the raw-data of the simulated meteorological targets.
