Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar
Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar
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支持气象雷达生物多样性监测所需的气象数据政策
DOI：
10.1175/bams-d-21-0196.1
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Kranstauber, Bart
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作者：
Shamoun-Baranes, Judy;Bauer, Silke;Chapman, Jason W.;Desmet, Peter;Dokter, Adriaan M.;Farnsworth, Andrew;van Gasteren, Hans;Haest, Birgen;Koistinen, Jarmo;Kranstauber, Bart
天气雷达网络在持续和长期监测鸟类、蝙蝠和昆虫的空中生物多样性方面具有巨大潜力。来自天气雷达的生物数据可以支持生态研究，为保护政策的制定和实施提供信息，并增加公众对迁徙等自然现象的兴趣。天气雷达已用于研究动物迁徙、量化种群变化以及减少鸟类与飞机之间的空中冲突。然而，如果没有适当的数据政策和基础设施，建立广泛利用业务天气雷达进行生物多样性监测的框架的努力就会面临风险。在欧洲，气象学家和生态学家团体共同努力共享和标准化全大陆的天气雷达数据。由于新的气象数据交换政策使数据对生物多样性监测毫无用处，这些努力现在面临风险。在世界其他几个地方，气象雷达数据甚至无法用于生态研究。我们敦促世界各地的政策制定者、资助机构和气象组织认识到天气雷达数据的全部潜力。我们提出了几项行动，以确保全球气象雷达网络持续发挥作用，作为生物多样性监测和研究的强大工具。
Weather radar networks have great potential for continuous and long-term monitoring of aerial biodiversity of birds, bats, and insects. Biological data from weather radars can support ecological research, inform conservation policy development and implementation, and increase the public’s interest in natural phenomena such as migration. Weather radars are already used to study animal migration, quantify changes in populations, and reduce aerial conflicts between birds and aircraft. Yet efforts to establish a framework for the broad utilization of operational weather radar for biodiversity monitoring are at risk without suitable data policies and infrastructure in place. In Europe, communities of meteorologists and ecologists have made joint efforts toward sharing and standardizing continent-wide weather radar data. These efforts are now at risk as new meteorological data exchange policies render data useless for biodiversity monitoring. In several other parts of the world, weather radar data are not even available for ecological research. We urge policy makers, funding agencies, and meteorological organizations across the world to recognize the full potential of weather radar data. We propose several actions that would ensure the continued capability of weather radar networks worldwide to act as powerful tools for biodiversity monitoring and research.