CHAPTER 7:: WEATHER RADARS

Weather radars. NEXRAD: WSR-88D . NEXRAD is NEXt-generation RADar, and WSR-88D stands for Weather Surveillance Radar, the 88 is for 1988 (the year this technology was commissioned and implemented), and D is for Doppler (meaning that it’s capable of retrieving not only reflectivity, but also radial velocity and spectrum width). ................
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