Welcome from the Director
Welcome to the Atmospheric Radar Research Center at the University of Oklahoma! The ARRC consists of a vibrant group of faculty and students from both engineering and meteorology, focused on solving challenging radar problems and preparing the next generation of students. Through the collaborative nature instilled in its members, the ARRC has proven effective at developing synergy between science and engineering in the field of weather radar. In the National Weather Center and in its extensive laboratory and radar facilities, meteorology and engineering faculty and students work side-by-side to learn from each other and to tackle tough problems in remote sensing of the atmosphere. This interdisciplinary esprit de corps has already had a profound effect on both the undergraduate and graduate educational experiences in radar provided to OU students.
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University of Oklahoma Professor Appointed as Prestigious Committee Chair
Yang Hong, associate professor in the University of Oklahoma's School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and associate director of the Center for Natural Hazard and Disaster Research, has been appointed precipitation technique committee chair for the American Geophysical Union.
AGU is the largest earth scientists‚ organization with about 60,000 members, and 7,000 of its members identify hydrology as their primary section of choice.
"Precipitation technical committees are a key element of the AGU hydrology section," said AGU hydrology section president Dennis Lettenmaier in a letter to Hong. "They have a storied past; many well known names in the field have chaired these committees going back many decades."
Selected by Lettenmaier, Hong began serving the two-year term July 1. He has been asked to assemble a 12-person committee responsible for promoting scientific interactions in precipitation and closely related subdisciplines of hydrology.
"It is an honor to be appointed to such a position and I hope to work with the deputy chair, professor Wiltold Krajewski, and the other core members from all over the world to provide intelligent leadership for precipitation sciences and applications in hydrology," said Hong. "Major focuses for the coming two years will be the synergistic integration of space and ground sensors, as well as flash flood prediction initiatives."
In addition to Hong's titles, he serves as an affiliated faculty member in the Atmospheric Radar Research Center at the National Weather Center.
Extracted from AGU newsletterARRC Professor Granted Tenure
Congratulations to Professor Guifu Zhang for earning tenure! Dr. Zhang has been with the ARRC and School of Meteorology since 2005. His research expertise includes radar polarimetry and interferometry for weather quantification and forecasting. Dr. Zhang teaches Weather Polarimetry every other fall semester.
ARRC Members Appointed as Fellow
Professor Robert Palmer, ARRC Director, and Professor Yang Hong were recently appointed Scientific Fellows of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA. Professor Palmer's research interest includes atmospheric radar signal/array processing, imaging radar design, radar interferometry, clutter mitigation and radar system design. Professor Hong is an expert in precipitation estimation using remote sensing techniques and hydrological modeling.OU-PRIME Scans Tornado
ARRC's OU-PRIME radar captures unique polarimetric dataset of tornado with unprecedented resolution. This image has been selected as NSF's Science360.gov Picture of the Day for June 10, 2010! To learn more about the OU-PRIME radar, please visit the OU-PRIME page.