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Examples of Doppler radar in a Sentence
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Technology like Doppler radar allows meteorologists to detect small, weak tornadoes that would've gone unreported in the past.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2024
The smaller suction vortices, as they’re sometimes called, have been documented by mobile Doppler radar packing winds of more than 300 mph.
—Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 22 July 2024
What's changed since: Doppler radar is now used at airports to detect wind shear and microbursts like the one that brought down the plane.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 9 July 2024
That requires more Doppler radars, more monitoring stations, more weather balloons, more computer networks to collect, synthesize, and share this information.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1954, in the meaning defined above
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“Doppler radar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Doppler%20radar. Accessed 30 Sep. 2024.
Kids Definition
Doppler radar
noun
: a radar system using the Doppler effect for measuring speed
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