What is a radar mosaic?

The RADARS System utilizes a mosaic strategy to monitor abuse, misuse and diversion across all phases of the drug abuse pathway. Data from all programs are triangulated to provide a comprehensive picture of prescription drug abuse, misuse, and diversion.

What is national reflectivity mosaic?

The national reflectivity mosaic product is also automatically edited to detect and remove most non-precipitation features. Even with limited experience, users of unedited products can differentiate precipitation from other echoes, if they are aware of the general meteorological situation.

What does NOAA stand for?

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Full name

What is base reflectivity?

A Base Reflectivity image indicating precipitation. Taken from the lowest (½°) elevation scan, base reflectivity is excellent for surveying the region around the radar to look for precipitation. The colors represent the strength of returned energy to the radar expressed in values of decibels (dBZ).

How to interpret Doppler radar?

Radar basics and the doppler shift

NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar) obtains weather information (precipitation and wind) based upon returned energy.

Learn about the Radar Beam here

This reflected signal is then received by the radar during its listening period.

NEXRAD spends the vast amount of time “listening” for returning signals it sent.

What is NEXRAD Doppler radar?

NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of

How does Doppler radar help meteorologists?

Medical Doppler devices uses high frequency sound waves to monitor internal organs. Meteorologists use Doppler radar to track and predict weather patterns. Radar is used to gauge the speed of pitches at a baseball game. Doppler radar can help meteorologists predict winter storms.

What is a mosaic radar?

A radar product that combines information from multiple radars to give a regional or national view of reflectivity or precipitation. An individual NEXRAD radar is limited to a range of about 200 miles. Typically, a mosaic product is produced for regions spanning several hundreds to several thousands of miles.