Subject: Nexrad and bird migration
Date: Sep 24 18:47:09 2002
From: Jack Bowling - jbinpg at shaw.ca


** Reply to message from Ian Paulsen <ipaulsen at krl.org> on Tue, 24 Sep 2002
16:57:42 -0700 (PDT)


> HI ALL:
> I heard that bird migration can be tracked using Nexrad radar. Does
> anyone know how this works? I found a website: www.intellicast.com that
> provides Nexrad pictures for your area, just enter your zipcode. I was
> looking at the picture and trying to figure out what is going on!!

Ian - Go to your favourite web search engine and enter "bird migration NEXRAD"
in the search field. Lots of hits. NEXRAD is a Doppler radar system which means
that in addition to painting target echoes, it also provides information on
speed and direction of movement of the returned target.

Here is one of the interesting web pages dealing with this subject:

http://birdsource.cornell.edu/Birdcast/interpret_nexrad.html

Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca