Manually-Digitized Radar Data for the Conterminous United States

The former Techniques Development Laboratory (TDL) of the U.S. National Weather Service began collecting Manually-Digitized Radar (MDR) data in November 1973 from teletype reports for the eastern two-thirds of the United States. In 1978, TDL began archiving the MDR on a new grid aligned with the output grid of the Limited Fine Mesh (LFM) model, which was the model used for numerical weather prediction at the time. The new MDR archive covered the entire conterminous United States. As with the old MDR data, the new data were archived in Model Output Statistics (MOS) predictand format to support thunderstorm prediction. In addition to the "raw" MDR data, TDL also created a gridded 20-nautical-mile-resolution MDR product.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1978-03-02T00:00:00Z
    End:  1994-12-31T22:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1978-03-02T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1994-12-31T22:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NCEP_ON84 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 8725 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Foster, Donald S.
Reap, Ronald M.
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1983-07-11
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/FFH8-Z735
Alternate Identifier d840001
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:11:46Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d840001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Foster, Donald S., Reap, Ronald M.. (1983). Manually-Digitized Radar Data for the Conterminous United States. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/FFH8-Z735. Accessed 23 November 2024.

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