NEXRAD product improvement overview

Author

Saffle, E. Robert ; Johnson, L. Dwayne

Author_Institution

NWS/Office of Syst. Dev., Silver Spring, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

Firstpage

288

Abstract

The National Weather Service, in cooperation with their Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) partners in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Transportation (DOT), are currently planning and executing a scientific and technical evolution of the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) system. This effort is the necessary and planned continuing improvement of the WSR-88D system to: (1) meet NOAA´s strategic goal of advancing short-term warnings and forecast services for the general public, (2) meet FAA requirements for additional and higher quality products, and (3) meet DoD requirements for a radar user interface interoperable between NEXRAD and other deployable Doppler weather radar systems

Keywords

Doppler radar; economics; geophysical signal processing; government data processing; maintenance engineering; meteorological radar; military computing; open systems; search radar; Department of Defense; Department of Transportation; DoD; Doppler weather radar; NEXRAD product; National Weather Service; Next Generation Weather Radar; WSR-88D; Weather Surveillance Radar; cost; design limits; forecast services; off-the-shelf open systems; product generation algorithms; short-term warnings; Algorithm design and analysis; Degradation; FAA; Government; Meteorological radar; Open systems; Silver; Springs; Text analysis; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1997. NAECON 1997., Proceedings of the IEEE 1997 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3725-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1997.618092

Filename

618092