By Mr. Alberto Masprone (auth.), C. G. Collier, M. Chapuis (eds.)
Meteorology is by way of nature a multidisciplinary and transnational topic and value cooperation has proved to be a versatile and compatible framework at ecu point for meteorological actions akin to the standardisation of commentary strategies and harmonised transmission of meteorological info. even supposing meteorology isn't coated through a selected group programme as such, quite a few group activities facing meteorology at the moment are integrated within the EEC examine programme on climatology (the "EPOCH" programme - 1989-92) of mechanisms of utmost and unexpected bearing on rather the learn meteorological occasions, which will expect catastrophies and as a result to minimize human and fabric losses. within the context of price cooperation, that's supported by way of the fee of the ecu groups, the associated fee seventy three venture (1986-1991) affiliates sixteen nations in Western Europe with the purpose of developing a climate radar community offering real-time measurements of rain, snow or hail precipitations. during this undertaking, radar info are transmitted and mixed if acceptable with satellite tv for pc facts - in a single or extra "compositing centres" of the partaking nations, as a way to enhance climate forecasting. including the fee seventy three administration Committee, the fee of the ecu groups geared up a seminar in this subject, in Brussels on 5-8 September 1989, on the half-way degree of the project.
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M. Sarman (USSR) and the author of the present paper as his disciple, the principles and goals of a network in Europe were unified meteorological radar years 1968 1970. publ ished [1,2,3] in the atmosphere was not Unfortunately, the political favourable for the implementation and for further advance of these concepts at that time. r Meteorology" was held in Bratislava in 1972. At this symposium methods of building up a unified automated weather radar network in Eastern Europe were specified [4,5] .
Missouri. Installations will begin early in 1990 for these first ten operational systems. - 34 - 5. TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION During fall 1986 and spring 1987, teams of meteorologists and engineers from all three participating NEXRAD agencies conducted 10T&E. One team operated and maintained the UNISYS prototype near Hartford, Connecticut, while another team did the same with the Raytheon prototype just west of Boston, Massachusetts. , they were not conducted in real forecast offices or base weather stations.
It is likely that images over the larger area shown in Figure 1 will be produced by the time of the Seminar. Whilst the present product can be interpreted to give instantaneous or cumulative precipitation amount, it is not satisfactory for all users. Hence it is regarded as the first of a product line which will include images making use of three-dimensional data and later Doppler data. All products will be in polar stereographic coordinates having pixel sizes of roughly 5 km x 5 km. The prime longitude will be 0° so that they can be compared directly with numerical forecast information available from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) and other forecast centres.