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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Wi-Fi, one of the biggest applications of the 5 GHz band was Terminal Doppler Weather Radar. The decision to use 5 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi was finalized...
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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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magnetron based cloud radars (e.g. from 15 to 60 m for MIRA systems). The maximum detection range is between 14 and 20 km and the Doppler velocity resolution...
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Wind shear (category Weather hazards to aircraft)
can be detected using Doppler radar. Airports can be fitted with low-level windshear alert systems or Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, and aircraft can be...
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Wi-Fi, one of the biggest applications of 5 GHz band was the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar. The decision to use 5 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi was finalized...
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Vertical draft (category Severe weather and convection)
push soot and carbon monoxide into domiciles. Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, a 5 cm Doppler weather radar design to detect wind shear near major airports...
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Aviation Administration's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) network. Warning Decision Training Division (WDTD) National Weather Service Training Center...
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the Doppler effect. Most modern radar systems use this principle into Doppler radar and pulse-Doppler radar systems (weather radar, military radar). The...
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Hill offices (radar identification code: TLX), serving northeastern Kansas and most of western Missouri; and a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at Kansas City...
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at which LLWAS-II sites weather exposure justified upgrade to a weather radar (Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) or Weather Systems Processor (WSP))...
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the addition of Doppler weather radar units on the ground (NEXRAD). The installation of high-resolution Terminal Doppler Weather Radar stations at many...
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Glossary of meteorology (redirect from Weather phenomena)
also take into account local geographic influences on weather. Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) thermal A column of rising air in the lower altitudes...
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Lines Flight 191 Pan Am Flight 759 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Low-level windshear alert system "Making the Skies Safe from...
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Phased array (redirect from Phased-array radar)
the end of the transmit pulse, which is compatible with Doppler radar and pulse-Doppler radar. Passive phased arrays typically use large amplifiers that...
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Project NIMROD (category Severe weather and convection)
airport and public safety by the development of systems like the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar and the Low-level windshear alert system. The project was set...
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PAGASA (redirect from Philippine Weather Bureau)
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...
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an annual user fee. The WSR-88D Doppler weather radar system, also called NEXRAD, was developed by the National Weather Service during the mid-1980s, and...
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by Terminal Doppler Weather Radar and C-Band satellite communication. The misconfiguration of DFS had caused significant disruption in weather radar operation...
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Range ambiguity resolution (category Radar)
transmit pulses. This signal processing technique is required with pulse-Doppler radar. The raw return signal from a reflection will appear to be arriving...
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convince the National Weather Service that Doppler radar was a crucial forecasting tool. Between 1980 and 2000, weather radar networks became the norm...
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surveillance radar (ASR) is a radar system used at airports to detect and display the presence and position of aircraft in the terminal area, the airspace...
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Outline of tornadoes (section Radars)
Radar Aggie Doppler Radar Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) WSR-1 WSR-57 WSR-74 Mobile radars Doppler on Wheels RaXPol SMART-R Mobile radar observation...
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in the 5470 – 5725 MHz band "Elimination of interference to Terminal Doppler Weather Radar" (PDF). FCC. July 27, 2010. "(see page 9) Sharing the 5.9 GHz...
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Transcribed Weather Broadcasts Abbreviated area forecast TWC tail wind component TWDL Two-way data link Or: terminal weather data link TWDR Terminal Doppler Weather...
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radar. In fact, the magnitude of this component of the velocity is proportional to the degree of signal-shift. Therefore, CODAR measures the Doppler-induced...
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the original on January 14, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2018. Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport: Environmental...
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Glossary of tornado terms (category Severe weather and convection)
most commonly used in the Southern U.S. Tail cloud Temperature Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) – Thermal Thermodynamics Thunderstorm (tstm) The Thunderstorm...
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As it passed over Bridge Creek, around 6:54 p.m., a Doppler On Wheels mobile Doppler weather radar detected wind speeds of 302 mph (486 km/h) – later revised...
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WSR-57 (redirect from Raytheon AN/FPS-41 Radar Meteorological Set)
gradually replaced by the Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988, Doppler, WSR-88D, which NOAA named the NEXRAD network. The last WSR-57 radar in the United States...
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