Sentences with phrase «using weather radar»
At the meeting, Frick and her colleagues described a new Web portal, called Surveillance Of Aeroecology using weather Radar, that makes using radar data much easier for biologists.
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John Westbrook, a research meteorologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in College Station, Texas, has been using weather radar to follow insect flyways in the south - central United States.
A bat ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Frick uses weather radars to monitor the movements of animals that used to vanish quickly from scientists's view as they took to the night sky for daily or seasonal journeys.
A European initiative is tracking birds using weather radars, and its scientists hope to get the funding to monitor insects as well.
«Researchers use weather radar to track migrating waterfowl, avian influenza.»
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The radar that Cruise uses to detect other cars on the road costs the company between $ 100 and $ 200 — it's similar to the Doppler radar your local news channel uses to bounce a signal off cloud formations and detect weather patterns.
He said that using tools like weather balloons, airplane - mounted instruments and laser radar, scientists can test their simulations.
«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.
«Novel data sources from the weather surveillance radar network and the eBird citizen science database enable development of a migration phenology index that can be used to answer this question in future studies.»
The OU study conducted in the eastern United States uses two novel data sources, weather surveillance radar and eBird citizen science data, to build indices of bird migration timing.
Radar uses radio waves to enable aircraft, ships and ground stations to see far into their surroundings even at night and in bad weather.
Modern weather radar contains even more information than 1995 systems did, he notes — and farmers can use that data to their advantage.
What's more, some agricultural pests that ravage crops in Texas and other U.S. farmlands are now visible using ordinary weather radar, giving farmers a better chance of fighting off the pests.
Forecasting — uses weather models (i.e., Doppler radar) to predict wind speeds and patterns at various altitudes.
The remote sensing instrument will use radar pulses to observe the speed and direction of winds over the ocean for the improvement of weather forecasting.
NOAA research meteorologist Pam Heinselman believes another advanced radar technology used by the U.S. Navy to detect and track enemy ships and missiles has great potential to improve weather forecasting as well.
PNNL researchers use a host of cutting - edge tools — including weather radars, research aircraft, computer models and satellite measurements — to explore these complex interactions.
This data is used in conjunction with ultrasonic sensors, a forward - facing camera and forward radar to build up a clear picture of the road ahead, traffic conditions, surfaces and movement in all weathers and all levels of visibility.
Lidar — an alternative take on radar using lasers to analyze light waves instead of radio waves — lacks radar's range and, like cameras, is sensitive to weather conditions.
Luckily it ended up just being heavy rain but because the radar struggled to determine the conditions immediately — as it's a completely different weather system to what we're used to in Europe — it made it a real challenge to prepare.
The system has a full VGA high - resolution 8 - inch color display, uses navigation data stored on a built - in 60 GB hard disk drive (HDD) for impressively quick operation and includes AcuraLink Real - Time Traffic with Traffic Rerouting ™ along with the AcuraLink Real - Time Weather ™ with weather radar image maps.
It uses radar (all - weather) and sometimes laser (LIDAR) and camera (employing image recognition) to detect an imminent crash.
Other systems that use radar can cut through the rain but then suffer during winter weather when the sensor on the front grille gets snow covered or iced over.
On 14 January 2015, the Albuquerque, N.M., weather forecast office used the SFR product near the northwestern New Mexico town of Gallup, an area with very limited radar coverage.
It uses beautiful Flickr background images that depict each city under its current weather conditions, and displays extensive forecast information as well as animated radar imagery.