National Weather Radar Testbed

Abstract

The long-term goal is to provide the Nation with enhanced weather radar that improves the detection of severe weather resulting in increased warning lead times and the saving of lives and property. Objectives: Build and operate the first surveillance phased array radar facility available on a full-time basis to the radar meteorological research community. The new system will be able to scan the atmosphere with more detail than the current radars. It will also be able to re-scan areas of severe weather very quickly, improving forecasters warning capability. In addition, the new technology will gather storm information not currently available, such as rapid changes in wind fields; to provide forecasters with better conceptual storm models and to initialize stormscale forecast models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA630030

Entities

People

  • Douglas E. Forsyth

Organizations

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Arrays
  • Climate Change
  • Detection
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Operations
  • Lead Time
  • Meteorological Radar
  • Phased Array Radar
  • Phased Arrays
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Standards
  • Technology Transfer

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation