111 Acquisition and Archiving of WSR-88D Level 1 Data from Testbed and Operational Radars

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Boundary Waters (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis)
Jane Krause, Centuria Corporation, Norman, OK; and L. Richardson, Z. Dufran, J. Winchester, and A. Daniel
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Handout (2.2 MB)

The NEXRAD tri-agencies (Department of Commerce, National Weather Service (NWS);
Department of Defense, Air Force Weather; and Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)) continue to support activities to steadily improve the science and technology of the WSR-88D. Advancements in removable IT storage hardware now allow the Radar Operations Center to record and archive a variety of situational weather radar cases of Level 1 (I and Q) data from both non-operational/testbed and operational WSR-88D radars. The data is made available to the research and development community via National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI).

This poster will provide a summary of the process for data collection, selection criteria for the cases collected, an overview of cases that have been archived, a list of potential uses, and the process for acquiring the data; and will describe technical and logistical challenges to data collection.
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