Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar

Meteorological Studies with the Phased Array Weather Radar and Data Assimilation Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter

This project leverages on the new PAR in Norman, Oklahoma to exploit phased array technology and its applications to improve NWP through EnKF data assimilation with the goal of improving environmental characterization and forecast to optimize naval operation. This project will further enhance the existing collaboration among ONR, National Serve Storms Laboratory (NSSL), and the University of Ok...

Monitoring bird migration by weather radar

Spatiotemporal information on bird migration is of invaluable use to scientists and society alike, but so far no sensor networks have been established that can monitor bird movement continuously over large areas. In aviation bird migration information is important for improving flight safety. Especially military low level flying has a high risk of en-route bird strikes and spatial bird migratio...

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Improving Weather Radar Data Quality for Aviation Weather Needs*

A fundamental function of any aviation weather system is to provide accurate and timely weather information tailored to the specific air traffic situations for which a system is designed. Weather location and intensity are of prime importance to such systems. Knowledge of the weather provides “nowcasting” functionality in the terminal and en route air spaces. It also is used as input into aviat...

Efficient Storage of Weather Radar Data

Weather radars produce large amounts of data and this has important implications for the archiving and analysis of data. The need for methods to deal with weather radar data sets will only increase as the United States National Weather Service (NWS) continues deployment of its 137 WSR-88D radars as part of the NEXRAD program. In this article we describe a compression and archiving strategy for ...