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RaXPol often collaborates with adjacent mobile radar projects, such as Doppler on Wheels and SMART-R. [2] Unlike its counterparts, RaXPol typically places emphasis on temporal resolution, and as such is capable of surveilling the entire local atmosphere in three dimensions in as little as 20 seconds, or a single level in less than 3 seconds. [3]
Mobile doppler weather radars have been used on dozens of scientific and academic research projects from their invention in the late 1900s. [1] One problems facing meteorological researchers was the fact that mesonets and other ground-based observation methods were being deployed too slow in order to accurately measure and study high-impact atmospheric phenomena. [1]
That radar, stationed near the intersection of Smith Road and Walbaum Road less than two miles (3.2 km) south of I-40, captured the "first polarimetric, rapid-scan, mobile Doppler weather radar dataset of an EF-5 tornado." [11]: 3 The RaXPol mobile Dopper radar, shown here scanning a severe thunderstorm in Oklahoma in 2013
This is officially the widest tornado to ever occur, with a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km) at its peak. This is the width found by the National Weather Service based on preliminary data from University of Oklahoma RaXPol mobile radar that also sampled winds of 296 mph (476 km/h), which was used to upgrade the tornado to EF5. [5]
English: The University of Oklahoma RaXPol research radar scanning a severe thunderstorm in Oklahoma, May 18, 2013, during the tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2013. Date 18 May 2013
The Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar, colloquially known as SMART-R or SR, is a mobile Doppler weather radar platform operated and created by University of Oklahoma (OU) with aide from Texas A&M and Texas Tech University in 2001.
While one crew went to deploy a pod of observational instruments in the direct path of the tornado for data collection, another, operating with a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) portable radar unit arrived in Greenfield at 3:30 p.m. and stationed themselves roughly 300 yd (270 m) away from the ultimate path of the tornado around 1 mile east of the ...
Storm chasers and the RaXPol mobile research radar observed a brief satellite tornado rotating around the primary El Reno tornado; no damage was reported. [107] EF0 SSW of El Reno: Canadian: OK: 2313–2314 0.5 mi (0.80 km) 350 yd (320 m)