Principal Investigator :: Dr. Adam Houston
Where :: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
When :: 27 March - 10 April 2010
Facility :: Doppler On Wheels
The University of Nebraska requested a 14-day on-campus deployment of a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) for classroom-instruction and hands-on experience with a cutting-edge radar system. The 2nd University of Nebraska DOW Education and Outreach (UNDEO 2) project has two principal objectives:
The principal component was to provide the ~15 students enrolled in Radar Meteorology, an upper-level course for undergraduate majors and graduate students in the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) Meteorology/Climatology program of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, the opportunity to use the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and analyze the data collected. Students were trained to operate the DOW and data will be collected during at least one intensive operations period (IOP) somewhere in the US Central Plains. Students will then use these data in research projects that culminate in a final term paper. Graduate students in the Meteorology/Climatology who took a radar meteorology course as an undergraduate (~3-5 additional students) were also invited to receive training in DOW operations. Read the complete UNDEO 2 Facility Request.
The first UNDEO took place in November 2008. While the principal objectives of UNDEO 2 are the same, there are several significant differences between the two projects that are summarized here:
The second University of Nebraska DOW Education and Outreach (UNDEO-2) project was conducted in the spring of 2011. Both UNDEO (in 2008) and UNDEO-2 were supported as “educational deployments” of the NSF Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities. This support enabled a 14-day deployment of a Center for Severe Weather Research Doppler on Wheels (DOW) to meet the following two principal objectives:
During UNDEO-2 students deployed DOW 6 near Kansas City, MO where data on multiple airmass boundaries along with “training” supercells were collected. The DOW was also exhibited to the nearly 1,000 visitors of the 11th annual Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium. Read the complete UNDEO 2 Final Report.
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