I know they have a test radar at Norman, OK but I don't believe the data is operational or available. When I get some time( probably next week) I am going to find out more on the availability of the data and will share with this list.
Dave Nicosia ________________________________ From: Andy Martin <apmart...@comcast.net> To: david nicosia <daven1...@yahoo.com>; nfc-l@cornell.edu Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 11:30:29 AM Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Dual-Polar Radar coming 2011-2012 Dave, Are there any polarimetric radar stations (a beta site) with a web link up and running at the moment that we might view in coming weeks as fall migration starts to intensify? Thanks, Andy Martin Gaithersburg, MD On 7/6/2010 10:26 AM, david nicosia wrote: All, > >The next two years will see all NWS radars equipped with >dual polarization which essentially adds a vertically oriented pulse >to the horizontal oriented pulse of energy. There will be a >slew of new radar products to learn and interpret. > >The advantages of dual polar are that meteorologists will >be able to better determine precipitation types, drop-sized >distributions of raindrops and mixed precipitation. It also >will determine non-meteorological targets better (birds!!). > >There are interesting radar products like differential phase, >which helps us with rainfall drop-sized distributions. I wonder >if this new technology will help determine the size of migrating >birds? Will a flock of geese appear different than >songbirds? This could be an exciting time for "radar" birding. > >For more information on this.... >check out this website.... > >http://www.cimms.ou.edu/%7Eschuur/radar.html > >Dave Nicosia >Johnson City, NY > > > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
