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/~schuur/radar.html > <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/ --
