Doppler on Wheels Research Radar at Purdue
Professor Jeff Trapp of EAS has been funded by the National Science Foundation to use of one of the Mobile Weather Research Radars “Doppler on Wheels” (DOW) for his Radar Meteorology course for one month in October/November. The upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in his course have the opportunity to take the radar out in teams to collect data on research projects of their choosing as part of the course.
While the DOW is here, Professor Trapp has also been giving tours to students enrolled in other atmospheric science courses in the department, as shown above.
The DOWs have been featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers” series, and have most recently been used in the field campaign “Vortex 2” this past summer, to study tornadoes. Prof. Trapp and several graduate and undergraduate students from EAS also participated in the Vortex 2 field campaign. Additional information on Vortex 2 can be found at: http://www.vortex2.org/home/
