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Meteorology and Climate 科学 Associate Professor 结果表明刁 and Professor Craig Clements with the recently acquired mobile Ka-band Doppler Radar.
Doppler radar acquisition, deployment, and research
With its acquisition of a mobile Ka-band Doppler Radar in 2019, 菠菜网lol正规平台 now owns and operates the first-of-its-kind deployable lab capable of conducting observational studies all the way from the Earth’s surface to the tropopause, across both dry and 潮湿的大气条件.
“The tool allows our students to learn to operate an integrated array of state-of-the-science equipment, thereby providing them with rich context for developing high-level academic and professional skills,” explains Meteorology and Climate 科学 Professor Craig Clements, head of the Fire Weather Research Lab at 菠菜网lol正规平台.
In addition to sampling wildfires, the radar will enable 菠菜网lol正规平台 faculty and students to conduct advanced research relating to precipitation processes in coastal and mountain environments, explains Assistant Professor 结果表明刁. “有了这项技术，我们 can measure ice and mixed phase clouds with unprecedented resolution, and monitor cloud structure development during atmospheric river events.”
The sophisticated system may also serve to attract undergraduate and graduate students to 菠菜网lol正规平台’s noteworthy meteorology programs.
Clements adds, “The scope of the research now being conducted leverages the non-overlapping fire and storm seasons in the western U.S. as well as a number of regionally specific ‘natural laboratories,’ thus maximizing the utility of a single instrument for multiple 研究目标.”
The 菠菜网lol正规平台 Fire Weather Research Laboratory truck equipped with the Ka-band Doppler Radar, at the Kincade Fire on October 23, 2019 near Healdsburg, California.
尼克·麦卡锡是一位来访的博士.D. student from the University of Queensland, and Taylor Aydell, 20年气象学硕士, examine data generated by the mobile radar during deployment at the Kincade Fire on October 23, 2019 near Healdsburg, California.
“Growing up in southern Louisiana I saw the aftermath of many hurricanes that made 登陆我们的海岸. Specifically, Hurricane Katrina had a large impact on my family, piquing my interest in atmospheric science.”
泰勒Aydell
20年气象学硕士
菠菜网lol正规平台 研究基金会 2020 年度报告
