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Universities

UPRM: University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus

PUPR: Politechnic University of Puerto Rico

CSU: Colorado State University 

Research Laboratories

PRWRN Puerto Rico Weather Radar Network

The Puerto Rico Weather Radar Network borns from the NSF-CASA-ERC and the NSF-TropiNet MRI iniciatives. They feature a network of X-band weather radars with single polarized (OTG) non-doppler and dual-polarized Doppler.

“A team of CASA graduate and undergraduate students from several CASA partner institutions designed, assembled and installed the “off-the-grid” (OTG), solar-powered and wireless radar system in a region of western Puerto Rico that the Doppler radar located south of San Juan cannot sense. The testbed covers a crucial 1.5 km-high gap in atmospheric weather-monitoring in that mountainous region, producing accurate rainfall data that can be used to predict flooding and support other applications such as crop hydrology. The testbed also explores methods for more accurate measurement of wind data than is now possible, and could be used as a back-up to the current radar system if the Puerto Rican electrical grid blacks out in heavy weather. “ – featured in LiveScience.

CLiMMATE: Cloud Microwave Measurements of Atmospheric Events

Works with the development and calibration of atmospheric and cloud models using data from radar and radiometer measurements. It is currently working with models for stratus clouds, cirrus ice crystals, atmospheric attenuation and precipitation measurements.

CASA: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center.

It seeks to revolutionize the way we detect, monitor and predict atmospheric phenomena by creating a distributed collaborative adaptive sensor network that sample the atmosphere where and when end user needs are greatest.

RCG: Radar Communication Group at CSU

The Radar & Communications Group conducts research on advanced radar development for earth/space remote sensing and aviation applications, earth/space propagation experiments and emerging systems. Current major activities include development of dual polarization radar technologies, signal processing radar networking, and space borne radar remote sensing.

Student Associations

EMC: ElectroMagnetics Council – IEEE at UPRM

An IEEE Joint APS, GRSS, and MTTS Student Chapter

Resources Links

ATMOSCARIB Caribbean Atmospheric Research Center

CoCoRAHS Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network

IEEE papers search: student resource online on published papers

AMS papers search: journal papers published by the American Meteorological Society

Atmospheric Soundings: where you can find sounding data

PIER: Progress in Electromagnetic Research

MENDELEY: A reference manager