Hurricane and tornado intercepts by the Doppler on Wheels Nov. 13

Released on 11/11/2008, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

WHERE: Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R Street

Lincoln, Neb., November 11th, 2008 —

The Doppler on Wheels, a mobile Doppler radar that has been used to retrieve unparalleled data near some of nature's most severe atmospheric phenomena, will be the subject of a Nov. 13 lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Josh Wurman, director of the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colo., will speak at 5 p.m. in the Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St. His talk will highlight the intercepts of hurricanes and tornadoes by the Doppler on Wheels.

Wurman and the DOW are featured on the reality series "Storm Chasers," airing on the Discovery Channel. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the UNL Department of Geosciences. The DOW will be on display outside the Wick Center starting at 4:30 p.m.

Before serving as the director of the Center for Severe Weather Research, Wurman was an associate professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Center for Severe Weather Research is a nonprofit research organization funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, with close collaborations with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Pennsylvania State University.

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