166 The Doppler On Wheels NSF Lower Atmospheric Observing Facility

Monday, 16 September 2013
Breckenridge Ballroom (Peak 14-17, 1st Floor) / Event Tent (Outside) (Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center)
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO ; and K. Kosiba, P. Robinson, B. Pereira, R. Humphrey, and N. A. pfeiffer

The DOW facility is a network of mobile radars, currently consisting of two dual-frequency, dual-polarization fast-scanning radars, and a multi-frequency multi-beam rapid-scan radar. DOWs have been deployed recently to the ASCII weather modification study, the LLAP lake effect snow study, the VORTEX2 tornado study, the ROTATE low level tornadic wind studies, HAL hurricane landfall studies, and the TOM orographic precipitation study. DOWs will be participating in the OWLeS lake effect snow study, and have been requested for several other field programs in 2014-2016. The capabilities of the DOW network and examples of products will be described, as well as recent upgrades to platforms, antennas, and other systems.
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