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Description: Reflectivity (left) and Doppler (right) returns from a Wind Farm about 30 miles southeast of the KBUF NEXRAD weather radar in Buffalo, NY. The radar has a sophisticated clutter/interference removal scheme, however the scheme was designed to filter out spurious returned (reflected) energy that has little or no motion. This is effective for removing the returned signals from terrain, buildings, and other non-moving structures. Unfortunately, the radar sees the rotating wind turbine blades as targets having reflectivity and motion, hence processes these returns as weather.
Title: Ref Dop wind farm KBUF
Credit: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/buf/windfarm.htm
Author: US National Weather Service in BUffalo, NY, modified by Pierre_cb
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