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- Key features of Canada’s new radar system Dual Polarization: Fully integrated Dual Pol technology across the entire network allowing for more precise and timely weather alerts. Extended Doppler Range: A 400 % increase in the Doppler coverage around each radar gives more Canadians greater lead-time when severe weather hits.
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Mar 15, 2024 · Environment and Climate Change Canada has fully replaced its operational weather-radar network with new, state-of-the-art radars across the country. This fully modern, sustainable network will improve the department’s ability to track and detect severe weather.
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Mar 14, 2024 · Key features of Canada’s new radar system. Dual Polarization: Fully integrated Dual Pol technology across the entire network allowing for more precise and timely weather alerts. Extended Doppler Range: A 400 % increase in the Doppler coverage around each radar gives more Canadians greater lead-time when severe weather hits.
- Advantage and Benefit of The New Radar Technology
- Radar Replacement Schedule
- Collaboration with Key Enablers
- Where to See The New Radar Data and Products
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Dual-Polarization: A Leading-edge Technology The new and state-of-the-art radars will have fully integrated dual-polarization technology, which will enable forecasters to better distinguish between rain, snow, hail, and freezing rain as well as better discern the size, shape, and variety of precipitation particles. This technology will also enable ...
Stepwise Approach to Replacement Schedule The contract with Leonardo provides for a commercial-of-the-shelf product with the contractor responsible for the complete construction from foundation to operational status. With the five radars operating in 2018, there were challenges associated with technical issues which led to several unexpected radar ...
Collaboration with key enablers is essential to ensuring a successful project delivery. These include contract monitoring; IT infrastructure; radar data and processing software adaptation; development of new Dual-Pol products; radar system and data quality control; as well as providing data and product services to internal and external clients (Fig...
Data from the new S-band radars is made available at the successful end of the Site Acceptance Testing. Products from the new radars can be found on ECCC’s Weather.gc.ca website (Figure 10) and datamart (dd.weather.ec.gc.ca). In addition, a higher resolution 1km composite radar animation is available on a zoomable map background within ECCC’s “Weat...
Sylvain Laramée Sylvain Laramée joined Environment and Climate Change Canada in 2003 and occupied several management positions in the Environmental Protection and Operations Division before joining the Meteorological Service of Canada in 2012. He worked as the Regional Manager, Atmospheric Monitoring for Quebec Region and as Senior Manager for Regi...
Per-Station Radar type, which lets you select individual ground radar stations for a more granular look at local data. The new RouteCast feature that lets you enter a start and stop point for a trip and get a forecast of the road conditions for the ride.
Jun 7, 2024 · Our new maps experience will give our users radar data that loads faster and updates sooner with much smoother animation. We now have light and dark mode designs to suit your device settings -...
Oct 9, 2022 · Weather radar shows precipitation in real-time, allowing meteorologists to better warn for flooding, hail and other severe events. It works by sending out electromagnetic pulses that will hit...
Sep 6, 2023 · The primary features of the map are: Application menu customized for the radar site. Common help for the National Weather Service sites. Select a view to customize the map. Search for a location on the map. Additional map options. Map controls (zoom and loop) Map time for the selected radar product (s) Map legend for the selected radar product (s)
