A team project where money was no object, our task was to design a custom Doppler radar system for the greater Boston area. We determined the bounds of our system by studying the dominant weather patterns of the region and a selection of severe weather case studies.
For both the extreme events, and the more typical conditions, the challenge was to strike a balance between output sounding resolution and update speed, between creating research-grade products and maintaining everyday functionality.
We used the R programming language to find the most ideal scanning angles for the location.