Patent Document ID: 8928521
Application ID: 13000600
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A radar system for nowcasting weather patterns within a region of interest, the system comprising: a radar source configured to propagate a radar signal; a radar detector configured to collect radar data; and a computational system in communication with the radar source and with the radar detector, the computational system comprising a processor and a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program embodied therein for direction operation of the radar system to investigate the region of interest, the computer-readable program including: instructions for propagating the radar signal into the region of interest with the radar source; instructions for collecting sampled radar reflectivity data from within the region of interest with the radar detector, wherein the sampled radar reflectivity data represents a reflectivity of the radar signal at points within the region of interest; instructions for selecting a horizontal two-dimensional data set from the sampled radar reflectivity data; instructions for determining a velocity for data points within the horizontal two-dimensional data set; instructions for predicting a horizontal location of data points within the horizontal data set at a future time using a Sinc approximation of the general flow equation and the velocity for data points within the horizontal two-dimensional data set; and instructions for returning the predicted horizontal location of the data points at the future time.