Abstract: An increasing number of people leave their mark on the Internet by publishing personal notes (e.g., text, photos, videos) on Web-based services such as Facebook and Flickr. This creates a vast source of information that ...

Abstract: n aviation meteorology, METAR messages are used to disseminate the existence of cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds. METAR messages are traditionally constructed manually from human observations, but there is a growing trend toward ...

Abstract: tional weather radar network in Europe covers more than 30 countries and contains more than 200 weather radars. The radar network is heterogeneous in hardware, signal processing, transmit/receive frequency, and scanning ...

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Abstract: eather radars provide us with colorful images of storms, their development and movement but from time to time the radars fail and we are left without data. To minimize these disruptions, owners of weather radars carry out ...

Abstract: Two approaches to producing a hail climatology for Finland are compared. The first approach is based on 70 yr of hail reports from different sources (newspapers, storm spotters, and other volunteers). The second is derived ...

Abstract: ireless technology, such as local area telecommunication networks and surveillance cameras, causes severe interference for weather radars because they use the same operational radio frequencies. One or two disturbances can ...

Abstract: The Finnish Meteorological Institute and Vaisala have established a mesoscale weather observational network in southern Finland. The Helsinki Testbed is an open research and quasi-operational program designed to provide ...