[Image shows the completed building with the new NSSL building and the WSR-57 visible in the background]
Notes:
I doubt this is a photo from 1971 because there appears to be an air conditioning
unit to the right; I know we did not have air conditioning in the early
1970s. I Need to point out that the WSR-57 radar in the background was
for many years useful in guiding data collection with the Doppler radar
because NSSL did not have real time displays, and because data collection
had to be confined to relatively narrow sectors. This limitation was due
to the fact that the digital recordings of time series data was confined
to 16 ranges that were shifted in a block to span a selected range while
the antenna slowly scanned in azimuth. The WSR-57 provided surveillance
at all ranges and azimuths so that decisions could be made as to where
to direct the Doppler scans.