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weather radar

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noun

  1. radar designed or suitable for use in detecting clouds and precipitation.


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Turbulence is most commonly caused by aircraft flying through cloud but there is also "clear air" turbulence which is not visible on a jet's weather radar, nor is it possible to predict.

From BBC • May 21, 2024

His team plans to test this by analyzing weather radar data – which also detects the presence of flying birds, bats and insects – to see if more birds take wing during the eclipse.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The transistor is expected to be useful not only in the fields of 5G communication base stations, weather radar, and satellite communications, but also in microwave heating and plasma processing.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Without information from a weather radar or other optical measurements, he says, it is challenging to puzzle out the small-scale processes within thunderstorms.

From National Geographic • Oct. 6, 2023

Look at what the weather radar is telling us: there’s trouble ahead.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell