Doppler on Wheels
Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets | |
| Abbreviation | FARM |
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| Formation | 1995 |
| Founders | Joshua Wurman |
| Type | Research facility |
| Focus | Severe weather research |
| Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado, United States |
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Region served | United States |
| Fields | Meteorology and Radar Development |
Executive Director | Joshua Wurman |
Managing Director | Karen Kosiba |
| Affiliations | University of Alabama in Huntsville Severe Weather Institute - Radar & Lightning Laboratory |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | University of Oklahoma Mobile Radar Research Lab (1995-2002), Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) (2003-2020) |
Doppler on Wheels (DOW) is a fleet of quickly deployable truck-mounted weather radars managed by FARM (Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets), an American research company affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The group, which started under the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology before becoming an independent nonprofit research facility in 2003, is led by atmospheric scientists Joshua Wurman and Karen Kosiba. FARM is partially funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the "Community Instruments and Facilities" program. The DOW fleet has been used throughout the United States since 1995 and internationally since 1999 to research hazardous and challenging weather phenomena such as tornadoes, hail, and hurricanes. The name refers to the doppler radars mounted on the trucks, which are able to determine precipitation intensity, velocity, and direction by analyzing the frequency shifts of radar returns.