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An up-close look at the new antenna design
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Antenna Design Could Improve Satellite Communications

by David Shultz 14 March 201910 March 2022

A novel antenna design promises to improve bandwidth and allow for better communication between Earth stations and satellites.

A tornado in Arkansas in 2013
Posted inNews

Westward Expansion, Technology, and Tornado Fatalities

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 6 March 201916 September 2022

By mining records from 1808 to 2017, researchers can now show just how many lives have likely been saved by technology like radar.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Diurnal Variation of Rainfall over the Equator Revisited

by Minghua Zhang 26 October 20188 March 2022

Radar data show an afternoon precipitation maximum in the equatorial Indian Ocean in addition to the nocturnal maximum; this occurs under light surface winds and suppressed large-scale convection.

Horizontal black lines show weather satellite data loss from radio frequency interference in 2015.
Posted inOpinions

Wireless Frequency Sharing May Impede Weather Satellite Signals

by J. Gerth 8 October 20181 August 2022

The delivery of weather satellite imagery is reliable today, but will it stay that way in the future?

Researchers use radar imaging to examine how snow temperature influences avalanche behavior
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Peering Beneath the Powder: Using Radar to Understand Avalanches

by Terri Cook 6 April 201831 March 2023

High-resolution radar images from Switzerland’s experimental test site show that snow temperature is a key factor in classifying avalanche behavior.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Continental Convection Reaches New Highs

by William J. Randel 12 March 201829 March 2022

Ten years of high-resolution gridded NEXRAD radar data provide a new data set to quantify tropopause-overshooting convection over the continental United States.

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment 12-meter telescope
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A Decade of Atmospheric Data Aids Black Hole Observers

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 2 February 20185 January 2023

Astrophysicists are using a global atmospheric model to help them coordinate a multicontinent, radio-frequency observing campaign to gaze at the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Observations of Mysterious Radar Echoes

by Gang Lu 19 January 201812 October 2022

Exploring the relationship between solar extreme ultraviolet radiation flux and 150-km radar echoes.

Researchers use ground-penetrating radar to spot carbon stores in the Disney Wilderness Preserve
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Better Way to Probe Peat

by S. Witman 10 January 20181 April 2022

Florida scientists use ground-penetrating radar to image underground carbon stores in the Disney Wilderness Preserve.

Crowdsourced reports of sightings of the 6 February 2017 meteor near Chicago.
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Students Get Help from Weather Radar to Find Space Rock Remains

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 December 20178 March 2022

Teens helped by scientists and educators seek meteorites that plunged into Lake Michigan early this year. Weather radar guided the search for the projectiles.

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