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    Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...
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    A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. It does this by bouncing a microwave...
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    ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic...
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    Australia's weather radars are operated by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), an executive agency of the Australian Government. The radar network is continually...
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    with systems that predated Wi-Fi, such as military radar, satellite communication, and weather radar, and also to provide on aggregate a near-uniform loading...
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    NEXRAD (redirect from KRAX RADAR)
    Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency...
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    The Canadian weather radar network consists of 33 weather radars spanning Canada's most populated regions. Their primary purpose is the early detection...
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  • precipitations. Weather radar Wind profilers Millimetre cloud radar CODAR Storm front reflectivities on a weather radar screen (NOAA) Wind profiling radar Navigational...
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  • Atmosphere Watch Automatic weather station Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) NEXRAD radar Global Sea Level Observing...
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    installed on OU weather radar trucks". KOKH. "Rapid scan Doppler radar development considerations. II - Technology assessment". Conference on Radar Meteorology...
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    Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) is a Doppler weather radar system with a three-dimensional "pencil beam" used primarily for the detection of hazardous...
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    an area of radar echoes somewhere nearby. Large airliners are more likely to use weather radar than lightning detectors, since weather radar can detect...
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    Mie scattering, causing alpenglow and gegenschein, and showing up in weather radar; Inelastic collisions between electromagnetic waves and the transmitting...
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    PAGASA installed its first Doppler weather radar station in Baler, Aurora and another in Baguio. The new weather radars can monitor the typhoon and its movements...
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    At this time, the Weather Bureau became the National Weather Service. At the beginning of the 1980s the NWS used the same radar equipment as in the...
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    what used to be called a radar range. In later years radar was used in scientific instruments, such as weather radar and radar astronomy. In 1886–1888...
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  • ARINC 708 is a specification for airborne pulse Doppler weather radar systems primarily found on commercial aircraft. ARINC 708 uses a data transfer method...
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    detector. Doppler weather effects (precipitation) were also found to degrade conventional radar and moving target indicator radar, which can mask aircraft...
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    addition of radar altimeter, terrain-following radar, improved instrument landing system, microwave landing system, Doppler weather radar, LORAN receivers...
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    the 3D radar also provides elevation. Applications include weather monitoring, air defense, and surveillance. The information provided by 3D radar has long...
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    Avionics (section Radar)
    7, 2007). "How radar works | Uses of radar". Explain that Stuff. Retrieved June 24, 2022. "14 CFR § 121.357 - Airborne weather radar equipment requirements"...
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  • Laboratories (RLs). NSSL studies weather radar, tornadoes, flash floods, lightning, damaging winds, hail, and winter weather out of Norman, Oklahoma, using...
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  • radar Type 726 Radar navigation radar Type 751 Radar navigation radar Type 752 Radar navigation radar Type 753 Radar navigation radar Type 756 Radar navigation...
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    ARMOR (Advanced Radar for Meteorological and Operational Research) Doppler weather radar is a C-Band, Dual-Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar, located at...
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    weather were adopted everywhere. In the 1960s, weather radar and meteorological satellites appeared and their images were incorporated into weather forecasts...
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    tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds in excess of 313 mph (504 km/h) within the vortex...
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    for a military air defence radar, this is ideal for a weather radar, and made phased array radars a prime candidate for implementation in the meteorological...
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    DBZ (meteorology) (category Radar meteorology)
    dBZ, is a logarithmic dimensionless technical unit used in radar, mostly in weather radar, to compare the equivalent reflectivity factor (Z) of a remote...
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    Joshua Wurman (category Weather radar pioneers)
    inventor noted for tornado, tropical cyclone, and weather radar research, the invention of DOW and bistatic radar multiple-Doppler networks. He attended Radnor...
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    An airport surveillance radar (ASR) is a radar system used at airports to detect and display the presence and position of aircraft in the terminal area...
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