US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm 161
coondoggie writes "The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. According to an NRL release, the very high-resolution 'Mid-Course Radar' was used to retrieve information on the internal cloud flow and precipitation structure. The radar was previously used to track small debris shed from the NASA space shuttle missions during launch. 'Similar to the traces left behind on film by sub-atomic particles, researchers observed larger cloud particles leaving well-defined, nearly linear, radar reflectivity "streaks" which could be analyzed to infer their underlying properties,' NRL stated."
useful.... (Score:5, Funny)
An obvious BOFH bonus (Score:5, Funny)
"Boss, I'll need some special equipment to see our data in the cloud ..."
Gee whiz (Score:-1, Funny)
How many raindrops are there in a storm? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:...Under what circumstances? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:useful.... (Score:1, Funny)
Stealth aircraft use electrogravity tech to reduce their weight by a significant amount. You are incredibly misinformed.