18 August 2013
Posted by Dan Satterfield
My friend Paul Gross at WDIV in Detroit used their radar to show birds taking flight. Click the image to see the video ctsy. WDIV.
Ornithologists are using radar more and more to track birds patterns.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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That’s not all. Weather radars are used to find meteorite falls, too.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1179.pdf