1. OPERA the Radar Project.
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Saltikoff, Elena, Haase, Günther, Delobbe, Laurent, Gaussiat, Nicolas, Martet, Maud, Idziorek, Daniel, Leijnse, Hidde, Novák, Petr, Lukach, Maryna, and Stephan, Klaus
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METEOROLOGICAL services , *RADAR , *ANIMAL migration , *OPERA , *SERVER farms (Computer network management) , *RADAR meteorology - Abstract
The Operational Program on the Exchange of Weather Radar Information (OPERA) has co-ordinated radar co-operation among national weather services in Europe for more than 20 years. It has introduced its own, manufacturer-independent data model, runs its own data center, and produces Pan-European radar composites. The applications using this data vary from data assimilation to flood warnings and the monitoring of animal migration. It has used several approaches to provide a homogeneous combination of disparate raw data and to indicate the reliability of its products. In particular, if a pixel shows no precipitation, it is important to know if that pixel is dry or if the measurement was missing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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