Former WGN Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling climbed a 100-foot tower at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville to ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine you're at the train station, waiting to catch the northbound train. It's a quiet ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A research team has developed an extrapolation-based Doppler resolution enhancement algorithm for frequency modulated ...

The headline is somewhat of a trick question: of course the effect did exist before the railroads. However, it wasn’t yet defined by the physics of the day, nor was it even noticed before the ...

Radar, which stands for radio detection and ranging, has been around for almost as long as controlled flight. Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins conducted the first experiments that led to a ...

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, I did not invent Doppler. Christian Doppler (1803-1853) was the first person to describe how the relative motion of a source and detector affects the ...