Doppler On Wheels (or DOW) is a project maintained by the Center for Severe Weather Research led by Joshua Wurman, with the funding mainly provided by the National Science Foundation. Joshua Michael Wurman (born 1960 is an atmospheric scientist noted for Tornado, Hurricane, and Weather radar research The National Science Foundation (NSF is a United States Government agency that supports fundamental Research and Education in all the non-medical The project consists of three vehicles mounted with doppler weather radar dishes, and a support vehicle. A weather radar is a type of Radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion estimate its type ( Rain The DOW mobile radar networks has recently been made an NSF National Facility available for use by NSF-funded researchers and others. The aim of the project is to collect as much detailed information on severe weather as possible using the mobile Doppler vehicles. One DOW (DOW 3) has recently been used by the Discovery Channel series "Storm Chasers", National Geographic television specials (Tornado Intercept, The true Face of Hurricanes), and PBS NOVA (The hunt for the supertwister), and others. Discovery Channel is an American Satellite and Cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, Terrestrial television and Storm Chasers is a docudrama television show that follows a team of Storm chasers as they attempt to intercept and film a Tornado from inside it The DOW Trucks are based out of Boulder, Colorado. Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States The DOW fleet consists of the DOW2, DOW3, and multi-beam Rapid-Scan DOW. DOWs have participated in over 20 field programs including VORTEX, COPS, MAP, JAWS-Juneau, PAMREX, FLATLAND, CR1, ROTATE, and CALJET, and will be core instrumentation in the upcoming VORTEX2 tornado study.
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