Other radar meteorology sites

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The sites listed below are sorted in various categories: data sites, facilities and research groups, to learn more, etc. The links were last checked at the time of the last update of this page and may not be current. By the way, such a list can never be complete either...

To learn more:

• Radar Meteorology courses offered by University of Illinois.
• Short course on Radar in Meteorology by W. K. Hocking (University of Western Ontario)
• AMS glossary of meteorology.
• Glossary -  NASA Science.
• Radar resources from the National Climatic Data Center including a set of definitions of NexRad terms and acronyms.
• An overview of NEXRAD products.
• Our set of image examples.

Real-time data:

• North America:

  • Canadian composites for:
    • Atlantic provinces;
    • Quebec;
    • Ontario;
    • Prairies;
    • Pacific provinces.
  • Not to forget our own suite of radar data.
  • US composites from:
    • Unisys;
    • Intellicast;
    • Intellicast, North East Region;
    • The Weather Channel;
    • AccuWeather.
  • Individual US radars (U. Michigan).
  • Burlington VT radar loop (Intellicast) (coverage for Montreal without delay).
  • NOAA Profiler Radar Network.
  • Individual Mexican radars (in Spanish).

• Europe:

  • European Radar Map.
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland).
  • Météo-France.
  • MeteoSwiss.

• South America:

  • Argentinian radar composites (in spanish).
  • Brasilian radar composites (in portuguese).

• Asia/Pacific:

  • Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
  • Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan).
  • Hong Kong Observatory.
  • Japan Meteorological Agency.
  • RTS Weather Station (Republic of the Marshall Islands).

• Africa:

  • South African Weather Service.

     

Radar data archives:

• NEXRAD data from:
  • NCAR (last 48 hours of individual radars)
  • NCDC (country-wide mosaics since 1995)
• McGill data archive for Montreal area.
• Alberta Hail project archive.

Facilities and research groups:

• North America:

  • Arecibo Observatory (ionosphere and planetary radar).
  • Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program (ARM).
  • Colorado State University and the CHILL radar facility.
  • McMaster's University (Ontario) IPIX Radar.
  • MIT Haystack Millstone Hill Observatory.
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): radars (S-Pol, Eldora/Astraia), MAPR profiler, Research Applications Laboratory, and image gallery.
  • NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and its HATS Airborne Projects and cloud profiling radars.
  • National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) and its Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research Group.
  • NEXRAD Radar Operations Center.
  • Texas A&M Smart Radar.
  • Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).
  • University of Massachusetts Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory .
  • University of North Dakota Polarimetric Doppler radar.
  • University of Oklahoma Atmospheric Radar Research Center.
  • And of course, there is us at McGill University and the cloud radar group.

• Europe:

  • BALTEX Radar Data Centre (Sweden).
  • Chilbolton Radar Facility (UK).
  • Delft University Atmospheric remote sensing group (Netherlands).
  • DLR Polarimetric Doppler Radar POLDIRAD (Germany).
  • GKSS Radar Remote Sensing (Germany).
  • INSU/Météo ST radar network (France).
  • Politecnico di Milano Spino d'Adda radar (Italy).
  • University of Bonn (Germany).
  • University of Helsinki radar (Finland).
  • University of Reading radar group (UK).
  • Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia (Spain)

• Asia/Pacific:

  • University of Canterbury (New Zealand).
  • National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (India)

Link sites and others:

• American Meteorological Society conference announcements.
• Radar links made by U. Reading (UK).
• Radar entomology web directory (Australia) (for insect enthusiasts).
• Links to sites worldwide from Karlsruhe U. (in German).
• More links to sites worldwide from EUMETNET.
• More radar and meteorology links (Czech Hydrometeorology Institute).
• World radar links.
• Montreal-area weather link sites.