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 ...

Rudy wants to know if the doppler effect, which causes the pitch of sounds emitted by a moving object to change, is the same doppler effect in radar. We have all heard the changes in the sounds that a ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Scanning the skies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year, Doppler radar is an extremely important tool in our weather toolbox. With a total of 159 NEXRAD ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we invite a very special guest to the lab, 9 & 10 chief meteorologist Michael Stevens to discuss the often misunderstood concept of Doppler. Many believe that the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. There are many laws that govern the natural world: the laws of polarity, gravity, relativity ...

This Doppler on Wheels radar image shows an orange band of "lake effect" snow over the southeast corner of the Great Salt Lake, moving toward the Wasatch Range (red on right). University of Utah ...