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  2. Joan Curran - Wikipedia

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    Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the Second World War. She devised a method of releasing chaff, a radar countermeasure technique credited with reducing losses among Allied bomber crews.

  3. Weather radar - Wikipedia

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    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.).

  4. Doppler radar - Wikipedia

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    A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. [1] It does this by bouncing a microwave signal off a desired target and analyzing how the object's motion has altered the frequency of the returned signal.

  5. Terminal Doppler Weather Radar - Wikipedia

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    A NEXRAD weather radar currently used by the National Weather Service (NWS) is a 10 cm wavelength (2700-3000 MHz) radar capable of a complete scan every 4.5 to 10 minutes, depending on the number of angles scanned, and depending on whether or not MESO-SAILS [7] is active, which adds a supplemental low-level scan while completing a volume scan ...

  6. List of radars - Wikipedia

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    AN/APN-168 Doppler radar by Marconi Electronic Systems used with AN/AYA-3; used in CH-53A and OV-1 Mohawk AN/APN-169 station-keeping radar by Sierra, for the C-130 and C-141 AN/APN-170 terrain following radar by General Dynamics for A-4C B-52 and B-58

  7. Should Swansea spend $16M to renovate Town Hall Annex ... - AOL

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    What happened at Swansea's Oct. 1 and 10 information sessions The building at 68 Stevens Road that houses the town offices was gifted in 1890, when Swansea’s population was 1,456.

  8. Swansea, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts, United States. It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River , just west of Fall River , 47 miles (76 km) south of Boston , and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Providence , Rhode Island .

  9. Category:Swansea, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Swansea, Massachusetts" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...