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Remote sensing

Weather radars

Weather radars are powerful tools in studying weather phenomena and in short-term weather forecasting. They can also be utilized, for example, in estimation of rainfall over areas with low rain gauge coverage. 

Take a look at the Météo-France Eastern Caribbean Composite Radar Images  New images are available every three hours. Different colours indicate different echo intensities (reflectivities or rain fall rates). The following navigational tools may be used: Précédente = previous, Arrêt = stop, Suivante = next. More Caribbean radar images (e.g. radar at San Juan, Puerto Rico) can be found through the Radar Images page of the www.caribweather.net portal.

Four new Doppler weather radars will be installed in the Caribbean region (in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Belize) in near future. These radars will complement the existing radar network and thus improve the observation and forecasting capabilities of the Caribbean National Meteorological and Hydrological Services considerably. Read the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat press releases 144/2000, 145/2000, 165/2003, and 166/2003 on this topic.

Read the Weather Radar in the Caribbean essay by Mrs. Margaret Pestaina-Jeffers!

Learn more about radar meteorology:

• Study of hail storm in Cuba using radar imagery (abstract in English), Meteorological Bulletin 1/2001 of the Meteorological Society of Cuba.

• Online guide on radar meteorology (University of Illinois, USA, the weather world 2010 project)

• Radar meteorology at McGill University, Canada.

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