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> There are many more radial solid lines (i.e. something like a building is > blocking the beam in one direction, or interference with a neighboring radar) > and also much more noise in general. The Lincoln, IL radar has a radial line > almost due west pretty much all the time, and the Sioux Falls, SD radar seems > to have many radial false echos - not a straight line, but lots of smaller dots > along many of the radials. I don't see any "more" bad data, it just is more evident due to the higher resolution. All of those "artifacts" are quite clearly in the raw data. For example, L2 from KILX shows the blockage to the west. FSD is showing that interference(?) pattern. Many of the other spikes are simply sunset spikes. If you use a 4-bit NIDS viewer you will see the exact same artifacts, they just might be harder to recognize due to the lower resolution. > Not sure what, if anything can be done about it, but it's kind of a bummer > that these higher resolution products have such poor quality control. I think you are looking at it the wrong way... The 8-bit data is showing more detail than 4-bit. That's a good thing. - ROb
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