Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Mark Fersdahl

Jeffery A Finley

Venkata A Sishtla

Divesh Lakhi

A radar system performs a plurality of horizontal scans; from the horizontal scans, the radar system identifies several cells. Based on the horizontal scans, the radar system produces a first vertical profile that is applied to the identified cells. The radar system performs one or more vertical scans of one of the identified cells to get measured reflectivity values in elevation. The measured reflectivity values are used to create a second vertical profile. The second vertical profile is used to refine the first vertical profile at the location of the identified cell and also to proximal weather. The data used to create the first and second vertical profiles can be combined into a data packet and stored within the radar or transmitted to a remote device. The remote device can reproduce a third vertical profile from the information in the data packet at any point.

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Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America

Mark Fersdahl