rdale
EF5
PAR is still completely up in the air as to whether or not it will be fielded for NWS use. Even if so, the technology is at least a decade away.
http://www.ofcm.noaa.gov/mpar-symposium/presentations.htm
The dualpol beta test has been pushed back to the last quarter of this year, with full deployment now delayed until early 2011.
http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/Level_II/012110_FOS.pdf
The 8 remaining DoD radars that are not available in Level II format should be online with Build 12 release scheduled this summer (June/July.)
Slide to the end of http://www.roc.noaa.gov/wsr88d/PublicDocs/NNOW/NNwinter093.pdf for some award-winning imagery of events with the 88D dome in the shot.
http://www.ofcm.noaa.gov/mpar-symposium/presentations.htm
The dualpol beta test has been pushed back to the last quarter of this year, with full deployment now delayed until early 2011.
http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/Level_II/012110_FOS.pdf
The 8 remaining DoD radars that are not available in Level II format should be online with Build 12 release scheduled this summer (June/July.)
Slide to the end of http://www.roc.noaa.gov/wsr88d/PublicDocs/NNOW/NNwinter093.pdf for some award-winning imagery of events with the 88D dome in the shot.