Principal Investigator :: Dr. Brian A. Colle
Where :: Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
When :: 17 June - 8 July 2013
Facility :: Doppler on Wheels (DOW)
The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, located in Long Island, New York, is requesting a 3-week Doppler on Wheels (DOW) deployment from 17 June – 8 July 2013 for the Doppler Radar for Education And Mesoscale Studies (DREAMS) project. This opportunity will further the education of meteorology students at SoMAS by providing hands-on experience with the latest radar technology, as well as expose K-12 students and the general public to the latest atmospheric research, potentially inspiring future scientists.
There are ~600 undergraduate and over 200 graduate students enrolled at SoMAS, with 50 (25) of these students in the B.S. (M.S./Ph.D) atmospheric science program. SoMAS is ~30 km from the Upton, National Weather Service (NWS) office. There are typically 3-4 Stony Brook students that intern at the Upton, NWS each semester. Stony Brook also has an active collaboration with the NWS through a NOAA Collaborative Science and Technology project on regional weather and ensemble forecasting.
The primary objectives of this project include:
Read the complete DREAMS Facility Request.
Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Storm Chasing Project
General University News
26 June 2013
The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, located on Long Island, New York, completed a 3-week Doppler on Wheels (DOW) deployment from 17 June – 8 July 2013 for the Doppler Radar for Education And Mesoscale Studies (DREAMS) project. This experiment allowed students ranging from high school to graduate school to (1) gain experience operating a weather radar, (2) interpret Doppler radar data for various convective storm and sea breeze situations, (3) synthesize various datasets to make daily forecasts and nowcasts, (4) launch weather balloons in support of DREAMS, as well as (5) expose K-12 students and the general public to the latest atmospheric research, potentially inspiring future scientists.
>> Read the complete DREAMS Final Report