The present weather radar system needs to be upgraded to cover all important catchments of Pakistan.
Doppler weather radar was part of a wider modernization of forecast offices nationwide lasting nearly a decade.
Weather radar for adverse conditions such as fog, and night vision goggles are among the equipment fitted.
The data were compared with those taken using weather radar and rain gauges, and the researchers found good agreement.
Rockwell will be producing the backbone communications, cockpit displays, pilot controls, weather radar and collision-avoidance systems for an estimated 1, 775 Dreamliners.
He also standardized the guts of LCDs, navigational gear, black boxes, instrument landing systems and weather radar, sharing technologies and components.
They ran a spirited Friday first practice session because everyone had seen the weather radar and knew the laps might count if qualifying was cancelled.
After the deployment of Doppler weather radar, lead times for tornadoes were nearly doubled, from less than five minutes to around 10 to 13 minutes.
Over the past two decades, enhanced pilot training, better weather radar and improved cockpit decision-making have substantially reduced the hazards posed by wind shear around the world.
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Unfortunately, economic radar is not as advanced as weather radar.
In the early 1990s, Doppler Weather Radar, or as it was more commonly known, Next Generation Weather Radar, was deployed at local National Weather Service forecast offices nationwide.
The slow decline in tornado death frequency from the mid 1920s through the early 1950s was greatly accelerated by the deployment of weather radar in the 1950s and 60s.
The most advanced weather radar on the market, for example, lets pilots page through screens showing ever-changing maps of what's ahead--rain, approaching thunderstorms, turbulence, wind-shear threats--all color-coded on flat liquid crystal displays.
Off the coast of New York, the second aircraft's weather radar failed and the flight was diverted back to JFK. They landed at 9:07 a.m. and waited until the afternoon for a new crew.
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Although tornado forecasting has remarkably improved over the last two decades with advanced forecasting techniques, weather satellites, numerical forecast models and Doppler weather radar, there is much about tornado forecasting that still remains a mystery.
After the 1953 disasters, developers of weather radar convinced Congress to support a national network of detectors known as the WSR-57 (for 1957), a very acceptable machine for picking up tornadoes capable of causing significant damage.
"It would be most useful for countries where they don't have much rain gauge data or weather radar - in Africa for instance, they do have mobile phones, at least in areas where the population density is high enough, " he told BBC News.
These provide readings on location, charting, weather, sonar and radar via a proprietary Ethernet-based network.
The project will use the data to improve radar and weather forecasting technology.
I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.
Even as Baron beefed up his radar business, his weather geeks were racking up patents on software that could interact with gps systems to deliver real-time forecasts to mobile customers.
But radar can be blinded by bad weather, and not all volcanoes are within range of suitable equipment.
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Channel Islands weather forecasts will be improved by an upgrade to radar in Jersey, according to the principal meteorological officer.
Within a few years, the lab developed radar systems used for naval navigation, weather prediction, and the detection of bombers and U-boats.
The National Weather Service said a tornado warning was issued as radar indicated a possible tornado moving from Kingfield, Maine, to Bingham, Maine.
The Weather Underground site has a bunch of good tropical storm models and radar feeds.
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And, Air Force officials say, with radar systems now installed in Hungary and Bosnia, the weather should be less of a problem -- although it could still shut down transports for days.
One of the radar analysts, atmospheric scientist Paul Kucera, said the West African weather systems are poorly understood.
Microgrids are rising on the national radar these days in the wake of Superstorm Sandy and the frequent power outages brought on by our crazy weather.
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