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Published January 30, 2026 | Version 1.1.0
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Dark Ecology Dataset: Measurements of Biological Activity in US Weather Radar: Vertical Profiles from 2020–2024

Contributors

Data curator:

  • 1. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst

Description

The US NEXRAD radar network has monitored the aerosphere over the US and its territories since the 1990s and archived over 290 million files that contain a wealth of information about the movements of birds, bats, and insects. We extracted measurements of biological activity from all files in the NEXRAD archive.

This data record contains vertical profiles of aerial biomass from 2020 through 2024. Vertical profiles for other years and time series data products can be found in related works.

Please visit https://github.com/darkecology/darkeco-dataset to access the full dataset, including download links, documentation, and examples.

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Continues
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.13345209 (DOI)
Is continued by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.18436968 (DOI)
Is documented by
Software: https://github.com/darkecology/darkeco-dataset (URL)
Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.13345265 (DOI)

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: Dark Ecology: Deep Learning and Massive Gaussian Processes to Uncover Biological Signals in Weather Radar 1661259