Fireworks on Weather Radar and Camera

Synthetic Aperture Weather Radar

The Danish weather radar network

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) operates four cband radars for weather monitoring. Three of these radars are doppler and were purchased from Electronic Enterprise Corporation (EEC) in the last 2 – 4 years. The fourth radar is an older non-doppler radar manufactured by Ericsson of Sweden and is situated on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Geographical location of the radar sit...

Improving weather radar by fusion and classification

In air traffic management (ATM) all necessary operations (tactical planing, sector configuration, required staffing, runway configuration, routing of approaching aircrafts) rely on accurate measurements and predictions of the current weather situation. An essential basis of information is delivered by weather radar images (WXR), which, unfortunately, exhibit a vast amount of disturbances. Thus,...

Weather Radar Development and Application Programs

■ Weather phenomena such as microburst wind shear and severe thunderstorms are major concerns to the aviation industry. A number of significant airplane accidents have resulted from wind-shear encounters during takeoff and landing, and thunderstorms are a major contributor to airplane delay. Providing fully automated and timely warnings of these phenomena by radar is challenging because it requ...

Improving Weather Radar Data Quality for Aviation Weather Needs*

A fundamental function of any aviation weather system is to provide accurate and timely weather information tailored to the specific air traffic situations for which a system is designed. Weather location and intensity are of prime importance to such systems. Knowledge of the weather provides “nowcasting” functionality in the terminal and en route air spaces. It also is used as input into aviat...