Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar
(2022) In Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103(4). p.1234-1242- Abstract
Weather radar networks have great potential for continuous and long-term monitoring of aerial biodiversity of birds, bats, and insects. Biological data from weather radars can support ecological research, inform conservation policy development and implementation, and increase the public’s interest in natural phenomena such as migration. Weather radars are already used to study animal migration, quantify changes in populations, and reduce aerial conflicts between birds and aircraft. Yet efforts to establish a framework for the broad utilization of operational weather radar for biodiversity monitoring are at risk without suitable data policies and infrastructure in place. In Europe, communities of meteorologists and ecologists have made... (More)
Weather radar networks have great potential for continuous and long-term monitoring of aerial biodiversity of birds, bats, and insects. Biological data from weather radars can support ecological research, inform conservation policy development and implementation, and increase the public’s interest in natural phenomena such as migration. Weather radars are already used to study animal migration, quantify changes in populations, and reduce aerial conflicts between birds and aircraft. Yet efforts to establish a framework for the broad utilization of operational weather radar for biodiversity monitoring are at risk without suitable data policies and infrastructure in place. In Europe, communities of meteorologists and ecologists have made joint efforts toward sharing and standardizing continent-wide weather radar data. These efforts are now at risk as new meteorological data exchange policies render data useless for biodiversity monitoring. In several other parts of the world, weather radar data are not even available for ecological research. We urge policy makers, funding agencies, and meteorological organizations across the world to recognize the full potential of weather radar data. We propose several actions that would ensure the continued capability of weather radar networks worldwide to act as powerful tools for biodiversity monitoring and research.
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- author
- Shamoun-Baranes, Judy
; Bauer, Silke
; Chapman, Jason W.
; Desmet, Peter
; Dokter, Adriaan M.
; Farnsworth, Andrew
; van Gasteren, Hans
; Haest, Birgen
; Koistinen, Jarmo
; Kranstauber, Bart
; Liechti, Felix
; Mason, Tom H.E.
; Nilsson, Cecilia
LU
; Nussbaumer, Raphael
; Schmid, Baptiste
; Weisshaupt, Nadja
and Leijnse, Hidde
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- 2022-04
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Animal studies, Biosphere-atmosphere interaction, Ecology, Economic value, Policy, Radars/Radar observations
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- volume
- 103
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 1234 - 1242
- publisher
- American Meteorological Society
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85131380499
- ISSN
- 0003-0007
- DOI
- 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0196.1
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: ©2022 American Meteorological Society
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- b6606ac0-01d2-403a-bd01-b59d8a3b381f
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abstract = {{<p>Weather radar networks have great potential for continuous and long-term monitoring of aerial biodiversity of birds, bats, and insects. Biological data from weather radars can support ecological research, inform conservation policy development and implementation, and increase the public’s interest in natural phenomena such as migration. Weather radars are already used to study animal migration, quantify changes in populations, and reduce aerial conflicts between birds and aircraft. Yet efforts to establish a framework for the broad utilization of operational weather radar for biodiversity monitoring are at risk without suitable data policies and infrastructure in place. In Europe, communities of meteorologists and ecologists have made joint efforts toward sharing and standardizing continent-wide weather radar data. These efforts are now at risk as new meteorological data exchange policies render data useless for biodiversity monitoring. In several other parts of the world, weather radar data are not even available for ecological research. We urge policy makers, funding agencies, and meteorological organizations across the world to recognize the full potential of weather radar data. We propose several actions that would ensure the continued capability of weather radar networks worldwide to act as powerful tools for biodiversity monitoring and research.</p>}},
author = {{Shamoun-Baranes, Judy and Bauer, Silke and Chapman, Jason W. and Desmet, Peter and Dokter, Adriaan M. and Farnsworth, Andrew and van Gasteren, Hans and Haest, Birgen and Koistinen, Jarmo and Kranstauber, Bart and Liechti, Felix and Mason, Tom H.E. and Nilsson, Cecilia and Nussbaumer, Raphael and Schmid, Baptiste and Weisshaupt, Nadja and Leijnse, Hidde}},
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series = {{Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society}},
title = {{Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0196.1}},
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