Weather radar
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[edit] Radar stations
 NSSL's first Doppler Weather Radar located in Norman, Oklahoma. |
 NSSL's first research Doppler Weather Radar. |
 Norman Doppler Weather Radar installation. |
 NSSL's second Doppler Weather Radar, 15 miles west of Oklahoma City. |
 NSSL Doppler Weather Radar with rainshaft nearby. If you don't believe the radar, look out the window. |
 Doppler Weather Radar Tower - San Diego California. |
 Weather radar on top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York City RCA GE Building |
 Radar of the Lisca weather station, Slovenia |
 Weather radar on top of the New Water Tower of Kerava, Finland |
[edit] Radar images
- Reflectivy images
 storm front |
 A classical "hook echo" as seen in the strongest tornado in the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak. |
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 Snow in Denver, CO |
 Lake effect snow on Buffalo, NY |
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 Smoke plume over NY |
 CAPPI example |
 Secondary lobe echoes |
 Bright band on radar |
 Snowsquall line/Bourrasque de neige frontale |
 Composite de plusieurs radars montrant un Derecho |
- Velocity images (Doppler):
 Mesocyclone and downburst patterns of Doppler radial velocities (radar at bottom) |
 Doppler winds pattern |
 Doppler dilemma |
 Mesocyclone detection on Doppler data on McGill Radar |
 Mesocyclone detection on NEXRAD |
 Détection de mésocyclone sur NEXRAD |
 Vents radiaux |
 Radial winds component |
 Supercell encounters bats |
[edit] Theory
 Composantes Radar components |
 Sonar/radar principle |
 Sonar/radar principle |
 Radar sounding |
 Radar beam and pulse size with distance |
 Calculation of radar beam height |
 Radar beam height in SVG |
 Radar polarization |
 Radar resolution |
 5cm wavelength Radar attenuation by heavy rain |
Radar sidelobes echoes |
 Radar angles in Canada |
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Angles radar au Canada |
 Three body scattering |
 Artefact sources |
 Sources d'erreurs sur un radar |
 Artefacts cluttering radar display |
 Filtered radar data |
 Loop of filtered and non filtered data |
 Drop size distribution (DSD) that enter into the Reflectivty versus Rain rate relation |
 Marshall-Palmer theorical DSD |
 Ducting radar beam due to temperature inversion |
 Super-refraction in altitude |
 Normal refraction in atmopshere |
 Subrefraction |
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 Beam spreading with distance |
 Loop showing a Wind Farm location |
 Reflectivity and radial velocities of wind mills blades |
 Tornado vortex signature algorithm output |
 Comparision of two radars with different resolution |
 Comparision of two radars with different resolution |
 Radial velocity explanation |
[edit] Networks
 Radars météorologiques français ARAMIS / French weather radars ARAMIS |
 Radar météorologique d'aéroport TDWR d'aéroports aux États-Unis |
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 Terminal Doppler Weather Radar network in the United States |
