Radar is quite spectacular in telling us exactly where rain is falling by pinging precipitation with radio waves! Our weather radar can determine more than just a storm’s location, but its movement as ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...

The integration of microwave photonics into sensor and radar systems has emerged as a transformative approach to achieve high-precision measurements of Doppler frequency shift (DFS) and ...

The International Isle of Man TT is a crazy motorcycle race. I mean—it's seriously ludicrous. They ride on public roads (yes, they are closed to normal traffic) such that you get these videos of bikes ...

Radar sends out electromagnetic (EM) waves rather than rubber balls, but the principle is analogous – we measure the reflections and use it to calculate the position of objects relative to the radar.

Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding several stories high. These somewhat plain ...

Meteorologists and weather experts in South Texas rely heavily on Doppler radar technology, but how does it work? How can a giant soccer-ball-shaped tower, known as the radome, detect clouds hundreds ...

Graham M. Gibson, Ermes Toninelli, Simon A. R. Horsley, Gabriel C. Spalding, Euan Hendry, David B. Phillips, Miles J. Padgett Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The radar's display system also allows for live street level mapping of radar data and automatic storm tracking as well as a flash option to highlight areas of intense precipitation. We can also ...