

To cite live migration map graphics, please use the following syntax:ĭokter, A. The BirdCast project was created by grants from the National Science Foundation and supported by additional grants from Leon Levy Foundation. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Amazon Web Services. Support for this research came from NASA, Edward W. Erie, PA Doppler Radar Weather - Find local 16501 Erie, Pennsylvania radar loop and radar. Use the map search tool if you want to place a location marker on the radar map. The migration traffic rate indicates the number of birds per hour that fly across a one kilometer line transect on the earth’s surface oriented perpendicular to the direction of movement of the birds.Ĭornell Lab of Ornithology currently produces these maps. Doppler Radar Weather, Erie Pennsylvania Doppler Radar Weather - Weather WX doppler radar weather and radar loops for Erie Pennsylvania. the Rockies) have obstructions that restrict radar coverage, providing the appearance of no migration where migration may be occurring.īrighter colors indicates a higher migration traffic rate (MTR) expressed in units birds/km/hour. Note that many radars in mountainous areas (e.g. Green dots represent radar locations for which data are available red dots represent radar locations with no data available. Orange arrows show directions to which birds flew. Areas with lighter colors experienced more intense bird migration. When present, the red line moving east to west represents the timing of local sunset, the yellow line represents the timing of local sunrise. The NOWRAD Radar Summary maps are meant to help you track storms more quickly and accurately. See the latest United States Doppler radar weather map including areas of rain, snow and ice. All graphics are relative to the Eastern time zone. The Current Radar map shows areas of current precipitation. Since hail can cause the rainfall estimates to be higher than what is actually occurring, steps are taken to prevent these high dBZ values from being converted to rainfall.Real-time analysis maps show intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Hail is a good reflector of energy and will return very high dBZ values. These values are estimates of the rainfall per hour, updated each volume scan, with rainfall accumulated over time. Depending on the type of weather occurring and the area of the U.S., forecasters use a set of rainrates which are associated to the dBZ values. The higher the dBZ, the stronger the rainrate. Typically, light rain is occurring when the dBZ value reaches 20. The scale of dBZ values is also related to the intensity of rainfall.

You can zoom into your neighborhood and customize your view of the weather. The value of the dBZ depends upon the mode the radar is in at the time the image was created. Track the rain, snow and precipitation with First Warning Weather's interactive radar. Notice the color on each scale remains the same in both operational modes, only the values change. The other scale (near left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in precipitation mode (dBZ values from 5 to 75). One scale (far left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in clear air mode (dBZ values from -28 to +28). Each reflectivity image you see includes one of two color scales. The dBZ values increase as the strength of the signal returned to the radar increases. So, a more convenient number for calculations and comparison, a decibel (or logarithmic) scale (dBZ), is used. Reflectivity (designated by the letter Z) covers a wide range of signals (from very weak to very strong). "Reflectivity" is the amount of transmitted power returned to the radar receiver. The colors are the different echo intensities (reflectivity) measured in dBZ (decibels of Z) during each elevation scan.
