NEXRAD collects and stores rainfall data in a cloud, allowing the IFC to develop a program to retrieve the data and create a map. The map has the benefit of allowing researchers to choose a specific area of study.

 

Seo, B.-C., M. Keem, R. Hammond, I. Demir, and W.F. Krajewski, A pilot infrastructure for searching rainfall metadata and generating rainfall product using the Big Data of NEXRAD, Environmental Modeling and Software, 117, 69–75, 2019.