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====== NorthPol Radar ======
Information on the characteristics of this radar can be found at [[http://radar.atmos.und.edu/]].

For additional information about data displayed on the radar webpage, please click [[atmos:webserver:home|here]]

===== Radar System Components =====

  * [[RVP8]]
  * [[RCP8]]
  * [[Radar1]]
  * [[Radar2]]
  * [[Radar3]]
  * [[Radar4]]
  * [[Radar5]]
  * [[Radar6]]
  * [[Radar7]]
  * [[Rayleigh]]
  * [[ServoAmp]]
  * [[Transmitter]]
  * [[Antenna_Pedestal]]
  * [[Radome]]

===== Software Manuals =====

  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/irisrad/|SIGMET-IRIS Radar Manual]]
  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/irisug/|SIGMET-IRIS Product and Display Manual]]
  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/irisutl/|SIGMET-IRIS Utilities Manual]]
  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/install/|SIGMET-IRIS Installation Manual]]
  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/program/|SIGMET-IRIS Programmer's Manual]]
  * [[ftp://ftp.sigmet.com/outgoing/manuals/relnotes/|SIGMET-IRIS Release Notes]]
  * {{:atmos:northpolradar:radarmanual_v5.doc|UND - IRIS Beginner's Manual}}

===== Web Page =====
The [[http://radar.atmos.und.edu | UND Radar Web page]] is served from the Aerospace Atlantis Web server.  The IRIS software on Radar2 creates gif images and places them into the appropriate directories within /usr/iris_data/.

On Atlantis, the get_radar.bash script is run each minute by the cron to fetch gif image from /usr/iris_data/gif on Radar2.  Files that are not on Radar2 are removed from Atlantis.

On Radar2, the gif_script.bash is run each minute by the cron to archive older than two day files from /usr/iris_data/gif_*/, where '*' represents different product directories. 

=====Summer 2026 Project=====
During the summer semester of 2026 the UND radar was upgraded from RVP8 to RVP9

* [[ work log]]

===== Misc =====
  * [[Radar Tours]]
  * [[Papers, Posters, Abstracts, etc]]
  * [[Radar Needs]]  
  * [[Using SkyVector to direct Citation]]

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