The Front Range Observational Network Testbed uses as core components the Denver and Cheyenne NEXRAD radars, and the home-base operations of the CSU/NSF CHILL and Pawnee radars, as well as the NCAR/NSF S-PolKa radar. With these five radars, four dual-Doppler lobe pairs can be formed that cover about 250 km in a north-south direction along the Colorado/Wyoming Front Range and plains. The domain of FRONT is shown in the figure; radar locations are also marked. It should noted that there is considerable installed observing infrastructure within this domain, including Denver and Boulder hydromet networks, COMET systems, as well as several mesonet stations and networks. Figure 2 shows some of these systems.
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Figure 1: The FRONT domain defined by dual-Doppler radar lobes; note that actual radar observational range greatly exceeds the extent of these lobes.
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Figure 2: Miscellaneous observing systems that are generally within the FRONT domain
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Figure 3: A 360 degree panorama of the Firestone site. (Click to view panorama)
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