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New weather radar better tracks violent storms

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 10:03am

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Faster and more precise storm detection radar will get its first urban test this spring in Dallas-Fort Worth, mapping weather hazards down to street levels when tornadoes, high winds or flash floods threaten.

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Police get $9,000 donation for radar equipment

Terrie Stephenson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 11:59pm

PLEASANT VIEW — Police Chief Scott Jackson says the day following an article in the Standard-Examiner explaining the need for new radar equipment, the Pleasant View Police Department received an anonymous donation of $9,000 to pay for three radar units.

Jackson said he is grateful to the donor and to the Standard-Examiner for running the story.

Council members recently approved the purchase of two of the five needed radar units. With the $9,000 donation, all five units will now be purchased.

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Researcher uses radar to study bats

Santa Cruz Sentinel, Tovin Lapan

Last updated Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 11:05am

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- For years, meteorologists have used special filters to eliminate pesky bioscatter -- readings from birds, bats and insects -- from their radar images.

Like a loudly buzzing fly, the extra data was swatted away as an annoyance distracting from the weather information.

Now that the 156 fixed weather radars across the country will be interfaced to provide comprehensive data, biologists are humming with excitement over what radar imaging, and that previously discarded bioscatter, will reveal.

Winifred Frick, a University of California, Santa Cruz, environmental studies post-doctoral researcher, along with colleagues from Boston University and the University of Oklahoma, is using radar images, from fixed radars and storm-chasing radar trucks, to study the habits of bats.

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