WSR-57 radars were the primary weather surveillance radar used by the United States for over 35 years. The National Weather Service operated a network...
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(used in the national network) operates in the S band (like the WSR-57 and the current WSR-88D). S band frequencies are better suited because they are not...
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took the successive names of WSR-1, WSR-1A, WSR-3 and WSR-4, depending on the gradual improvement of hardware. The first WSR-1 was put into service at the...
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Anemometer Hygrometer Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System WSR-57 WSR-74 AIRS AMSU-A ASTER Aqua Aura AVHRR CALIPSO CloudSat CERES DMC Envisat...
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Bureau acquired from the Navy. The WSR-1A, WSR-3, and WSR-4 were also variants of this radar. This was followed by the WSR-57 (Weather Surveillance Radar –...
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began to develop over West Texas, darkening the skies over Lubbock. The WSR-57 weather radar site in Amarillo, Texas, began detecting radar echoes south...
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blew the WSR-57 weather radar and the anemometer off the roof of NHC's/the Miami State Weather Forecast offices. The radar was replaced with a WSR-88D NEXRAD...
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those used by Navy aircraft to create the WSR-57 (Weather Surveillance Radar, 1957), with a network of WSR systems being deployed nationwide through the...
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Instrumentation Radar) Arecibo Observatory Millstone Hill HAARP WSR-57 weather radar WSR-74 weather radars WSR-88D NEXRAD weather radar Signal Corps Radio (SCR) radars...
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