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The Canadian weather radar network consists of 33 weather radars spanning Canada's most populated regions. Their primary purpose is the early detection of precipitation , its motion and the threat it poses to life and property.
The King City weather radar station (ICAO site identifier CASKR (CWKR prior to 2021)) is a weather radar located in King City, Ontario, Canada.It is operated by Environment Canada and is part of the Canadian weather radar network, for which it is the primary research station.
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
A 10 cm wavelength Doppler and dual-polarization radar built in 1968 and used for weather surveillance around the Montreal, Quebec area. It was part of the Canadian weather radar network , [ 5 ] used by the local weather office to monitor weather in real time for a variety of applications, from severe weather detection to sewer flow forecasting.
A plan position indicator (PPI) is a type of radar display that represents the radar antenna in the center of the display, with the distance from it and height above ground drawn as concentric circles. As the radar antenna rotates, a radial trace on the PPI sweeps in unison with it about the center point. It is the most common type of radar ...
"The radar can see through all of that," said Geoff York, senior conservation director at Polar Bears International who has been "training" the system's artificial intelligence this year to ...
AN/APN-186 Doppler radar system for A-6 part of ILAAS (AN/ASQ-116) AN/APN-187 improved AN/APN-185 Doppler navigational radar by Singer Corporation for P-3 Orion; AN/APN-189 development of AN/APN-172 Doppler navigation radar by Canadian Marconi Company for F-111D; AN/APN-190 improved AN/APN-185 Doppler radar by Singer Corporation for A-7 AC-130E ...
The communities were given little warning of bad weather approaching, as the Sudbury Airport did not have radar that detected tornado activity. Over 200 people were injured and six were killed. The damage was estimated at $17 million, and it is listed as the eighth deadliest tornado in Canadian history. [590] 1972