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The 2023 Weathernews Scholarship has been awarded to Sam Emmerson, PhD student in the School of Meteorology and the ARRC. Sam’s work was highlighted at the 12th Annual Workshop on Weathernews and OU Collaboration held November 1, 2023 at the Radar Innovations Lab.
Pictured with Sam are Michihiro Teshiba from Weathernews, ARRC Executive Director Bob Palmer, and Petra Klein, Executive Associate Dean, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.
The ARRC put on a festive light display during OU's Homecoming parade Friday night. Even the radar trucks got in on the action.
Dr. Jorge Salazar (top row left) has been selected as the Technical Coordinator for the 2024 IEEE Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) meeting and symposium. In addition, he has also been elected to the 2024 AMTA Board of Directors. “It's an honor to join forces with such a dedicated community. With AMTA's rich history of fostering advancements in electromagnetic measurement technologies alongside IEEE, I'm looking forward to contributing to this legacy and the upcoming AMTA 2024 symposium”, Dr. Salazar said.
Congratulations to ARRC/ECE graduate student, Alexis Oblitas, who was awarded third place for his paper “Enhancing On-Chip Antenna mmWave Calibration: A Hybrid Multi-Axis Scanner Enabling Near-Field and Far-Field Measurements for Over-the-Air Calibration”at the IEEE Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) Symposium held in Seattle. WA. Oct. 8-13. Alexix is advised by Dr. Jorge Salazar.
The University of Oklahoma has developed and now deployed the most advanced weather radar in the world. Led by a team of engineers and weather experts, and with funds from NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Advanced Radar Research Center at OU has launched "Horus," an all-digital polarimetric phased array radar capable of obtaining data with unprecedented quality and temporal resolution to help understand and predict the formation of severe weather. Click here to read entire article.
The ARRC and Epirus, Inc. have been awarded an $8.16 million Office of Naval Research grant to develop breakthrough long-distance phased array applications. The grant was awarded for joint effort to maximize output power of phased arrays for enhanced operational ranges utilizing AI and digital twin best practices. Click here to read full article.
Congratulations to SoM/ARRC graduate student Sam Emmerson (second from left) for receiving 3rd place in the poster contest at the AMS 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology, held recently in Minneapolis, MN. Sam's poster highlighted his research on the validation of multistatic wind retrievals using a vertical pointing mobile radar. (S.W. Emmerson, R.D. Palmer, D.J. Bodine, D. Schvartzman, P. Kirstetter, and P.S. Skinner, 2023: Validation of Multistatic Wind Retrievals Using a Vertically Pointing Mobile Radar. 40th Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Minneapolis, MN, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P74.)
The ARRC recently hosted a casual barbecue to honor Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier who is leaving OU for the University of Illinois. Kelvin was instrumental in starting the Radar Initiative that led directly to the establishment of the ARRC in 2005. We appreciate his continued support of the ARRC over the years and wish him the very best in his new endeavor.
Bob Palmer and Tian Yu recently visited the Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) in Seoul. Discussions centered around the future of weather radar and recent advances in radar signal processing.
Pictured between Drs. Palmer and Yu is Young Youn Park, Director General of the KMA Weather Radar Center.
After several years of diligent effort by the ARRC team and in collaboration with NOAA colleagues, the first journal paper on the fully digital Horus Phased Array Radar was published in the latest IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (Volume 1) in the special section on fully digital arrays. The technology represented in Horus will help advance weather radar science for decades to come.
Read the full journal article here.