This advanced measurement, part of dual-polarization radar technology, detects how similarly shaped objects are within a ...

Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, ...

Level-2 data is projected into a vertical plane using a regular grid ... in various single- and multi-beam configurations. One of the radar's advantages is that it depicts reflectivity and velocity ...

This is essential in identifying regions where thunderstorms may rapidly intensify. Radar velocity data measure the motion of precipitation particles relative to the radar. This helps to determine ...