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Ask A Met: How Does Radar Work?

If there are multiple things out there, say more raindrops, more beams will bounce back. What radar can do is measure the ...
Radar systems generally consist of a transmitter which can produce electromagnetic signal and which is radiated into space using an antenna. When this signals strikes an object it reflects into many ...
Hundreds of millions of birds are taking to the skies each night, southward-bound in search of warmer weather - so many that you can spot them on weather radar. It’s data that researchers can use to ...