What is VCP?
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What does VCP stand for?
Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
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Unless you are referring to Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. But Pierre was overrated as a leader and the park isn't as happening as it once was....so unlikely.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
VCP, a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:
In geography:
Van Cortlandt Park, New York City.
In organizations:
Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder, a German Scouting Association.
Verenigde Communistische Partij, a Communist splinter party in the Netherlands.
Vermont Crossroads Press, a publisher of children's books co-founded by R. A. Montgomery.
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, a brand of champagne.
Victorian College of Pharmacy, the name of the College of Pharmacy at Monash University since 1992.
Vienna Capital Partners, an Austrian fund
Vietnamese Communist Party.
Voluntary Cleanup Program, incentive-based government programs by which private parties assume the responsibility of cleansing properties contaminated by toxic waste, chemical wastes, etc.
Vintage Card Prices, an online sports card price guide.
In science and technology:
Valosin-containing protein.
Verville VCP Fighter - VCP represented Verville-Curtiss-Packard
Videocassette player, a VCR without recording capability.
Virtual COM Port, a driver emulates a standard PC serial port.
Vitrified clay pipe.
VMware Certified Professional, an information technology certification issued by VMware, Inc.
Volume coverage pattern, a scan strategy for NEXRAD weather radar.
Very Coarse Pottery, another name for briquetage
Viral Citrullinated Peptides, one of the antigen target of Anti-citrullinated protein antibody in rheumatoid arthritis
In transportation:
Viracopos-Campinas International Airport, IATA airport code.
<< <i>VCP = Volume Coverage Pattern. The VCP number tells the user the current scanning strategy for NEXRAD Doppler radars. >>
I know this sounds a little confusing to most. The problem with Doppler...or any radar....is the earth is round. So your radar does not go straight but up at an angle. Of couse we have enough Dopplers everywhere now this is no big deal, but different scanning strategies (VCPs) help also.
Most of the middle eastern countries have ordered Dopplers as well (many built at one of the Oklahoma universities)....I guess for sand storms or something.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
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<< <i>VCP = Volume Coverage Pattern. The VCP number tells the user the current scanning strategy for NEXRAD Doppler radars. >>
I know this sounds a little confusing to most. The problem with Doppler...or any radar....is the earth is round. So your radar does not go straight but up at an angle. Of couse we have enough Dopplers everywhere now this is no big deal, but different scanning strategies (VCPs) help also.
Most of the middle eastern countries have ordered Dopplers as well (many built at one of the Oklahoma universities)....I guess for sand storms or something. >>
I'm working with the CASA project. CASA = Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere. These are small relatively ineqpensive Doppler
radars installed on cell phone towers. The range is only 40 km, however, they coordinate their scan strategies to provide the required converage.
There are currently four to the southwest of the Norman/OKC area. Right now, they are only turned on for "interesting" weather. See
http://www.casa.umass.edu for more details. The UMASS people desigined the CASA radars.
NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory, here in Norman, in the same building that I work out of) develops and tests prototype Doppler systems.
The NEXRAD's building is contracted out by the government. I can't tell you who holds the contract.
<< <i>Vixen Consuming Popcorn
Winner!!
Dopplar changed everything. We use to have to double confirm every tornado, two trained spotters using radios had to see it. Now the weathermen using dopplars tell the spotters where the tornados are.
Clear Skies,
Mark
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.