A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Okinawa, Japan, operated by United States Department of Defense.
- Station
- Kadena AB (RODN)
- Site
- Kadena Air Base
- Operator
- United States Department of Defense
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 26.302° N, 127.910° E, 91 m above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
RODN is a weather radar of United States Department of Defense at Kadena Air Base, listed as Kadena AB, in Okinawa, Japan. The antenna stands 91 m above sea level. Naha lies 25 km southwest of the antenna.
The radar is a WSR-88D of the NEXRAD network, listed by the NWS as owned by the Department of Defense; Alerua reads its Level II data from the NEXRAD archive feed. The loop carries Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width.
Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.