Doppler on Wheels

Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band radar mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets affiliated with the University of Illinois and led by Joshua Wurman, with the funding partially provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The DOW fleet and its associated Mobile Mesonets and deployable weather stations (Pods and Poles) Doppler on Wheels (DOW) has been deploying in hazardous/challenging weather, driving into the eye of the storm to gather scientific data about wind, rain and snow that are missed by stationary radar systems. They are part of the NSF's "Community Instruments and Facilities" (CIF) program.