Doppler on Wheels
Fleet of X-band radar trucks maintained by the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets[1] affiliated with the University of Illinois[2] and led by Joshua Wurman, with the funding partially provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the "Community Instruments and Facilities," (CIF) program. The DOW fleet and its associated Mobile Mesonets and deployable weather stations (PODs & Polenet) have been used throughout the United States since 1995, as well as occasionally in Europe and Southern America.[1] The Doppler on Wheels network has deployed itself through hazardous and challenging weather to gather data and information that may be missed by conventional stationary radar systems.