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?

Outside every National Weather Service (NWS ... of modern meteorology’s most revolutionary and lifesaving tools: Doppler radar. The national network of 160 high-resolution radars, installed ...

in May 1960, as seen from the WSR-3 radar in Topeka (left). A supercell thunderstorm that produced an EF5 tornado in Moore, Okla., in May 2013, as seen from a modern Doppler weather radar near ...

Doppler weather radar enabled meteorologists to spot rotating winds within a thunderstorm, which is a strong precursor to the development of a tornado. This development led to vast improvements in ...

This advanced measurement, part of dual-polarization radar technology, detects how similarly shaped objects are within a ...

The installation will be completed in around six months.” The introduction of C-Band doppler weather radar in Sambalpur is an important step towards expanding weather monitoring capacity of the ...

One of the most powerful ways to collect global data about the weather is through satellites and Doppler radar towers. Satellites offer big-picture information. For example, weather satellites can ...

The Next Generation Weather Radar, also known as NEXRAD, is a network of 160 high-resolution Doppler systems, operated jointly by the National Weather Service, the Federal Aviation Administration ...