Wednesday, 30 August 2023: 10:45 AM
Great Lakes A (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis)
The Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) program tri-agencies (Department of Commerce, National Weather Service (NWS); the Department of Defense, United States Air Force (USAF); the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)) continue to support a long-term activity to steadily improve the science and technology of the Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D). Research and development is focused on improving the bias, variance, and coverage of the base data; the performance of clutter filtering; and the radar meteorological algorithms.
The NEXRAD Radar Operations Center annually releases WSR-88D software builds containing the approved research to operations improvements. These include new scan strategies, improvements to base data quality, and enhancements to the suite of radar-meteorological algorithms.
This paper will describe recent and near term planned improvements to these weather radar functional areas, and will provide an update on longer term radar improvement projects.
The NEXRAD Radar Operations Center annually releases WSR-88D software builds containing the approved research to operations improvements. These include new scan strategies, improvements to base data quality, and enhancements to the suite of radar-meteorological algorithms.
This paper will describe recent and near term planned improvements to these weather radar functional areas, and will provide an update on longer term radar improvement projects.

