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 ...

Doppler radar stands as the most important modern invention in meteorology, fundamentally transforming how we predict, prepare for, and track severe weather events. Since installations began across ...

Radar is an electronic signal that is sent out from a device that looks like a satellite dish. This machine sends out an electronic signal that "bounces" off raindrops, hailstones or anything falling ...

Doppler radar uses the Doppler effect to measure the radial velocity of targets in the antenna's directional beam. The Doppler effect shifts the received frequency up or down based on the radial ...

A cutting-edge mobile tool for tracking severe weather will be on display at the National Weather Service office in Dickinson. It gives forecasters much more detail as they try to predict what a storm ...

Two Dudes and a Doppler” is a weather-focused podcast hosted by our weatherteam, designed to extend our station’s mission ...

The Doppler shift of sound or light waves from a moving source is familiar to physicists and non-physicists alike. Now, researchers in China and Australia have seen the more exotic inverse Doppler ...