What goes on behind the scenes in the cockpit?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s new Domestic Aviation Forecast System (DAFS) will generate more detailed forecasts of evolving icing and turbulence risks, giving pilots real-time ...

As a baseline it is appropriate to begin with a review of the existing system. The primary weather surveillance radar system operated by U.S. agencies is the WSR-88D (NEXRAD) system, consisting of ...

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong, R-Monrovia, is pushing for a new weather radar system for north Alabama. During a National Weather Service Oversight hearing this week, Strong, vice chair of the Commerce, ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — State Sen. Rob Kupec has sponsored a bill to fill five critical gaps in low-level radar observations in Minnesota in the first year and eight critical gaps in subsequent years.

As a consequence of the development of the science of radar meteorology and the advent of the NEXRAD system, weather radar has become the primary means of detecting, describing, tracking, and ...