Weather Radar - CAPPI
| Property | Value |
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| id | urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:aae10768-0c0c-4670-807e-8e893680887e |
| identifier | urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:aae10768-0c0c-4670-807e-8e893680887e |
| title | Weather Radar - CAPPI |
| description | Due to the curvature of the Earth, the height of a radar beam, in relation to the ground, increases as it travels further from the radar. When the radar is pointed down near the ground (a low elevation angle), the beam starts off near the ground but then its height above the ground slowly increases. By the time that same beam is 200 km from the radar, it is at a height of around 4 km above the ground. In order to get a better sense of what is happening at one approximate height above the ground (i.e. 1.5 km), a whole series of radar beams with different elevation angles (low, medium, high) are used to create one radar product. This type of radar product is called a CAPPI (Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator). Since the CAPPI products do not use Doppler processing to filter out clutter like tall trees, hills and buildings, it can sometimes be contaminated by non meteorological echoes. |
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concepts:
id:
Radar
id: Remote sensing id: Weather id: Meteorology scheme: https://canada.multites.net/cst/EAEAD1E6-7DD2-4997-BE7F-40BFB1CBE8A2/CST20230912.rdf concepts: id: weather scheme: https://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline |
| language | en |
| type | dataset |
| created | 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| rights | Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada) |
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addresses:
deliveryPoint:
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
city: Fredericton administrativeArea: New Brunswick postalCode: E3B 6Z4 country: Canada roles: host organization: Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada name: National Inquiry Response Team / Équipe nationale de réponse des demandes du public position: National Inquiry Response Team hoursOfService: 0700h - 1500h EST contactInstructions: email phones: value: +18199972800 emails: value: ECWeather-Meteo@ec.gc.ca links: rel: canonical type: text/html href: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html |
| keywords | Atmospheric conditions Weather and Climate National (CA) Atmosphere |
| wmo:dataPolicy | core |
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