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Peter Desmet¹, Judy Shamoun-Baranes², Bart Kranstauber²

¹Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium. peter.desmet@inbo.be.

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Weather radar data reveals billions of animal movements in the lower atmosphere. These datasets offer unprecedented insights into continental-scale aerial animal migration patterns.

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Area of Science:

Environmental science
Zoology
Atmospheric science

Background:

Weather radars continuously monitor the lower atmosphere.
Archived radar data contains information on animal movements.
Existing methods lack comprehensive aerial habitat coverage.

Purpose of the Study:

To present novel biological datasets extracted from European weather radar data.
To enable biological monitoring of aerial animals at a continental scale.

Main Methods:

Processed archived, unfiltered weather radar data.
Utilized optimized methods for extracting bird targets.
Generated vertical profiles of biological targets.

Main Results:

Created two comprehensive datasets of biological data from European weather radar.
Data covers 141 radar stations across 18 countries (2008-2023).
Datasets provide unprecedented insights into aerial animal movements.

Conclusions:

Weather radar data is a valuable resource for biological monitoring.
These datasets open new avenues for understanding continental-scale animal movements.
Careful data evaluation is necessary due to varying quality and coverage.