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The electrical signals in a NOAA radar weather (pronounced like Noah) arrangement generally follow this route:

1) Transmitter - Sends out short pulses of microwave radiation like a radio communication device. Why pulses? These shock waves do the trick, consume less power and allow the same set of weather radar equipment to receive the reflected signal when it comes back.

2) Antenna - The dish shaped part.

If focuses the pulse, arriving from the transmitter via a special conduit called a wave guide, and directs it outward. Then it catches the incoming signal and sends it to the...

3) Receiver - The processor which handles the incoming goods and makes this type of image possible. It has to clean the signal up first and therefore a lot of electronics such as variable optical attenuators and amplifiers are required here.

You need a good antenna, receiver and amplifier plus lots of muscle; the received signal is around a million million million times weaker than the outgoing power. To work with these huge declines, a logarithmic scale represents the values in the form of decibels.

4) Processor and Display - The screen or paper you can look at. It usually shows a CAPPI output. An imaginary a horizontal plane set at a certain distance above the ground.

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Entire books have been written about the processes found in the radar system weather services make use of.

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International weather forecasts - Other Services

In addition to NOAA radar weather services such as Environment Canada Weather operate local weather radar within their own regions.

Other countries will have their own infrastructure to serve this purpose.
Navigate back from NOAA Radar Weather to the Radar Real Time Weather webpage, or visit the Stuff in the Air homepage.

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