The National Weather Service's 148 WSR-88D Doppler radars can detect most ... A tilt angle of 0.5° means that the radar's antenna is tilted 0.5° above the horizon. Viewing multiple tilt angles ...

“It just looks like a flat wall, but it’s an array of antenna ... much about the weather. Meteorologists need X-ray vision to ...

WCR is used in operations where it is desired to describe weather events ... (if applicable) Mean Doppler velocity (radial velocity along each active antenna beam corrected for aircraft motion) ...

NEXRAD is also known as WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler), a Doppler system that ... to be projected in sharper beams by smaller antennas and generally have higher precision ...

Until recently phased array radar has been very expensive, used only for military applications where the cost of survival weighs in the balance. With the advent of low-cost microwave devices and ...

KOCHI: A state-of-the-art, indigenous doppler weather radar, capable of predicting with increased accuracy weather events such as cyclone occurring in 500-km radius from Kochi, was inaugurated by ...