1. CASA Off-The-Grid (OTG) & NSF MRI TropiNET radars: UPRM Weather Radar Network
Dr. Sandra Cruz-Pol and Dr. José Colom-Ustáriz
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. UPRM

2. Problema Real
Presentation Title
December 26, 2018
“There is insufficient knowledge about what is actually happening (or is likely to happen) at the Earth’s surface where people live.” [National Academy of Sciences, 1998]
Cayey
NWS radar
Mayaguez
Speaker Name 2

3. Waterspout – Mayaguez Bay, Sept 2005

4. UPRM Radars Two NSF projects:
CASA- (NSF ERC) (Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere) – P.I.- Dr. Sandra Cruz-Pol
radares Banda-X with solar-backup : OTG & EWR
TropiNET (NSF MRI)– P.I. Dr. José Colom-Ustáriz
Radares polarimétricos, Doppler, X-band
P.I.= Principal Investigator

5. Note the
improved
Resolution
of one
Note the
improved
resolution
UPRM Radar
UPRM Radar
These are upper layers
These are upper layers
NexRad
NexRad

6. Student-Led Radar Test Bed Supports the
Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Summer Games
July 17th – August 1st
Mayagüez, PR
Contact: Jorge Trabal José Colom

7. OTG Radar @UPRM Magüe OTG2 EWR OTG= Off-the-Grid Radar Nodes
Solar Power back-up system
Wireless Point-to-Point Link Communication
EWR

8. OTG1
(4KW)
OTGs
OTG1
(4KW)
OTG2
(25KW)

9. The EWR radar at CROEM: solar powered
EWR is now at UPRM on top of Stefani Bldg
Photovoltaic system -designed for EWR, & OTGs.
Can be used as
back-up or
8-continous hrs of operation

10. OTG installation at Cornelia
Radar troubleshooting at CID (UPRM)

11. OTG1
OTG2
Jul 2010
Merged Data Plots

12. Jul 17, 2010, CAC Inauguration Day

13. UPRM TropiNET
UPRM has the NSF MRI TropiNET ($1.8M) for the establishment of a DCAS 3-radar network on the west of the island.
Doppler
Polarimetric
X-band (non
Radar sites: Lajas, Isabela, Cornelia

14. UPRM Weather web site

15. ¡Gracias!