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Weather Radar Summary
521 words, approx. 2 pages
Radio Detection And Ranging systems, known as radar, were developed in Britain in the 1930s as a defense against German bombing raids. While their military use flourished during World War II, radar was not used commercially until the 1950s. Today,...
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Weather Radar Summary
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Doppler radar dishes. . Radio Detection And Ranging systems, known as radar, were developed in Britain in the 1930s as a defense against German bombing raids. While their military use flourished...
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Doppler Radar Summary
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The changing frequency of sound waves emitted from a moving object was documented by Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1842 and termed the "Doppler effect." This concept was applied to radar in the 1970s, spurring the development of Doppler...
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Doppler radar uses the Doppler effect to measure the radial velocity of targets in the antenna's directional beam. The Doppler effect shifts the received frequency up or down based on the radial velocity of target (closing or opening) in the beam,...


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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar
10/01/2002: 1,181 words, approx. 4 pages
POLARIMETRIC DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR V. N. Bringi and V. Chandrasekar, 2001, 636 pp., $130.00, hardbound, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-62384-7 The field of radar polarimetry has expanded over the last 25 years with the development of new techniques and new hardware capable of highquality...
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The Washington Post
Radar Realities and The Dope on Doppler
06/16/2002: 1,217 words, approx. 4 pages
Once again, summer has brought the ever-present "chance of thunderstorms" to the Washington area. And once again, local TV news stations are competing over whose radar system can be counted on most. Topper Shutt, chief meteorologist at WUSA-9, the local CBS affiliate, claims...
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Farmers hope cannon's boom disrupts hail
12/27/2006: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
A thunderous boom from a 20-foot cannon echoes over John Diepersloot's apricot and peach orchards _ a sound the farmer hopes can save his trees from hail storms.Hail cannons, which switch on when storms are approaching, are the latest high-tech device aimed at protecting crops...
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Column: Indy 500 won more with a Doppler
5/28/2007: 915 words, approx. 3 pages
The rain came quickly in the gathering darkness, so quickly that the winner got soaked as he took a victory lap and rooster tails spouted from his back wheels. Everyone knew it was coming, because the 91st Indianapolis 500 was always as much a race...
 


 

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