{"id":255,"date":"2008-06-11T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.nssl.noaa.gov\/v2news\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:54:56","slug":"smart-radar-team-wins-nsf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/2008\/06\/smart-radar-team-wins-nsf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART-Radar Team Wins NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23 centered\" title=\"SMART-R Team and Vehicles\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/smartr-team-lab.jpg\" alt=\"SMART-R Team and Vehicles\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/smartr-team-lab.jpg 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/smartr-team-lab-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The NSSL and University of Oklahoma Shared Mobile Atmospheric and Teaching Radar (SMART-radar) team was awarded the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award to upgrade one of the mobile C-band radars with dual-polarimetric capability. SR-2 will be taken apart during Fall-Winter 2008 and rebuilt with the ability to perform simultaneous transmit\/receive dual-polarization measurements. The radar is expected to be fully functional again in time for the proposed VORTEX-2 project beginning in April 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Background:<\/em> The goals of the MRI Program are to: support the acquisition, through purchase, upgrade or development, of major state-of-the-art instrumentation for research, research training and integrated research\/education activities at organizations; improve access to and increase use of modern research and research training instrumentation by scientists, engineers and graduate and undergraduate students; enable academic departments or cross-departmental units to create well-equipped learning environments that integrate research with education; foster the development of the next generation of instrumentation for research and research training; and promote partnerships between academic researchers and private sector instrument developers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Significance:<\/em> Radars with dual polarization capabilities (radio waves that are sent out both horizontally and vertically) can more accurately determine precipitation types and amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSSL and University of Oklahoma Shared Mobile Atmospheric and Teaching Radar (SMART-radar) team was awarded the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award to upgrade one of the mobile C-band radars with dual-polarimetric capability. SR-2 will be taken apart during Fall-Winter 2008 and rebuilt with the ability to perform simultaneous transmit\/receive dual-polarization measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,9],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-v2news","tag-instrumentation","tag-smart-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}