The high-resolution precipitation input is from the DFW Demonstration Network of the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) radars.
This paper presents a real-time QPE system developed by the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Engineering Research Center for the DFW urban region using both the high resolution X band radar network and the NWS S band radar observations.
They are applied to fuse the Multisensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) and radar-only Next Generation QPE (Q2) products at the 15-min 1-km resolution (Experiment 1), and the MPE and Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) QPE products at the 15-min 500-m resolution (Experiment 2).
For instance, Snook et al. (2011) showed that it was possible to obtain probabilistic forecasts by using an ensemble Kalman filter analysis system that assimilated Doppler radar data from the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere and Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 systems.
As ground-based telescopes have gotten much bigger than Hubble and are rapidly getting the capability to cover most of the sky with atmosphere-piercing adaptive optic systems, Hubble is losing its competitive edge, particularly in the scientifically important infrared wave lengths.
Using adaptive optics that undo the atmosphere's blurring effects, they imaged a small companion of the asteroid Pulcova.
Barros, A.P., 1995: Adaptive Multilevel Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Interactions.
Because the atmosphere is a complex adaptive system, the precise impact of human activity couldn't be predicted.
In adaptive optics, the plant consists of the atmosphere through which light is traveling.
Astronomers say the Giant Magellan, augmented with so-called adaptive optics that reduce the blurring from the atmosphere, would be an invaluable tool, among other things, for hunting and studying planets around other stars.
Adaptive optics have proved so successful that the atmosphere "no longer limits our resolution," Ghez says that is, the telescopes can see just as well as they could if they were in outer space.
