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  2. Weather radar - Wikipedia

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    Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar ( WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the ...

  3. AccuWeather - Wikipedia

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    AccuWeather Inc. AccuWeather Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania.

  4. Doppler radar - Wikipedia

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    Doppler effect. The emitted signal toward the car is reflected back with a variation of frequency that depends on the speed away/toward the radar (160 km/h). This is only a component of the real speed (170 km/h). The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842, is the difference ...

  5. How to recognize a 'radar-confirmed tornado' - AOL

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    Unlock AccuWeather Alerts™ with Premium+. More than just a debris ball needs to appear on radar for a tornado to be radar confirmed. Another crucial piece of information is how close it appears ...

  6. Gallina, Castiglione d'Orcia - Wikipedia

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    Gallina is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Castiglione d'Orcia, province of Siena. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 157. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 157.

  7. Severe weather forecast: AccuWeather meteorologists put Great ...

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    An increase in thunderstorm activity is forecast for parts of the central United States through this weekend. AccuWeather meteorologists say some of the storms will turn severe as well as provide ...

  8. Gallina, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    923601 [3] Gallina is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 286 as of the 2010 census. Gallina has a post office with ZIP code 87017. [4] [5] New Mexico State Road 96 passes through the community. Gallina is derived from the Spanish word gallina, meaning "hen", and used figuratively to ...

  9. Radar - Wikipedia

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    Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ( ranging ), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles ), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method [1] used to detect and track aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain.