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Utilisation of VHF/UHF radar wind profiler networks for improving weather forecasting in Europe

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COST 74's main objective was to co-ordinate research activities in the field of strato-tropospheric wind radars in order to prepare the technico-scientific basis for a future European windprofilers network. National and European meteorological forecasting centres like ECMWF, organisations operating long range (post-Chernobyl) transport models or air-traffic planners would be the main users.
The project COST 73 was concerned with weather radar networking and its achievements are as follows:
specification of methods and procedures for the efficient and appropriate exchange of weather radar data on an operational basis throughout Western Europe, using procedures approved by the World Meteorological Organisation;
exchange of such data using land or satellite communications;
development of the competitiveness of European industry in this and associated fields, by the preparation of guideline specifications for radar and display hardware and software;
investigation of ways of using satellite data as a possible complement for radar data in areas with sparse or no radar coverage;
examination of the requirements of short period forecasting techniques and numerical weather prediction systems for European radar network data;
training in the use of radar network systems.
CURRENT STATUS

The COST 74 Project "Utilisation of VHF/UHF wind profiler networks for improving weather forecasting in Europe" started in November 1987. The main questions to be studied were set out during the first Management Committee meetings and subgroups were created to work on these specific problems. They are: - The allocation of radio-frequencies for the radars. There are three categories of wind profilers which, because of the maximum altitude to be reached, work in the 50, 400 or 1000 MHz frequency ranges. Requests for allocation of frequencies in these ranges, from the COST 74 delegations to the national licensing authorities, have been transferred to the European Post Administration (CEPT) in a bid to harmonise allocations on a European level. This is a key demand from wind radar manufacturers.
Emission spectra and antenna radiation pattern measurements were carried out on experimental radars in the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in order to obtain the necessary technical information for the licensing authorities.

- The selection of a convenient data format for the description of the measured atmospheric parameters following the request of the data users. The subgroup proposed a complement to the BUFR data code which is being used in meteorology for data exchange to the World Meteorological Organisation to be included in the World Manual of Codes.

- Collaboration with modellers and other potential users of data from regional or European networks. The models subgroup is in constant contact with meteorologists working on weather forecasting models as well as on long range transport of pollutants. Application of data from wind profilers in other fields, such as aeronautics or high altitude research (the German SAENGER project) is currently being discussed.

In Europe, about 10 experimental windprofilers are working in all three frequency ranges. Studies on the development of the instruments as well as on their application in meteorological research are ongoing.
A 4-radar research network is under construction in France. There are currently plans for a new network of about 60 radars of different altitude ranges in France, 10 in Italy, 8 in the UK, 7 in Switzerland and 3 in Finland.
Preliminary steps to join the future European network are being taken in other COST 74 member states.

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