Doppler On Wheels
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Doppler On Wheels (or DOW) is a project maintained by the Center for Severe Weather Research led by Joshua Wurman, with the funding mainly provided by the National Science Foundation. The project consists of three vehicles mounted with doppler weather radar dishes, and a support vehicle. The DOW mobile radar networks has recently been made an NSF National Facility available for use by NSF-funded researchers and others. The aim of the project is to collect as much detailed information on severe weather as possible using the mobile Doppler vehicles. One DOW (DOW 3) has recently been used by the Discovery Channel series "Storm Chasers", National Geographic television specials (Tornado Intercept, The true Face of Hurricanes), and PBS NOVA (The hunt for the supertwister), and others. The DOW Trucks are based out of Boulder, Colorado. The DOW fleet consists of the DOW2, DOW3, and multi-beam Rapid-Scan DOW. DOWs have participated in over 20 field programs including VORTEX, COPS, MAP, JAWS-Juneau, PAMREX, FLATLAND, CR1, ROTATE, and CALJET, and will be core instrumentation in the upcoming VORTEX2 tornado study.
