The only scientific team to successfully brave Hurricane Ike's knock-down winds and swells in Galveston was the DOW, the Doppler on Wheels mobile weather radar operated by the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) in Boulder, Colo. "The DOW mission to Ike provided, for the first time, high-resolution radar data collected from the ground of the inside of a hurricane eye strengthening during landfall, and from a hurricane that directly impacted a large urban area," said scientist Josh Wurman of CWSR. The National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported DOW was deployed on a 35-foot-high overpass in Galveston during the passage of Ike. "The mission will allow researchers to better understand how phenomena called fine-scale wind streaks and boundary layer rolls, discovered by the the DOW in 1996, affect hurricane evolution," said Steve Nelson, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric Sciences, which funds the DOW. "These rolls may be important in how efficiently heat is extracted from the ocean, and how strongly hurricane winds are slowed by surface friction."

1. Hurricane Katrina Impact Studies

2. NEXRAD Level II (DSI-6500 through DSI-6899) and NEXRAD Level III (DSI-7000)

3. Plymouth State University Weather Center's Archived Meteorological Data

4. Global Tropical Cyclone "Best Track" Position and Intensity Data

5. North Atlantic Ocean Tropical Cyclone Dataset 1886-1998

6. NOAA AOC WP-3D Research Flight Data (DSI-6420)

7. MM5 Simulation of Hurricane Diana Genesi

8. NASA Hurricane Resource Page

9. Hurricane Viewer

10. National Hurricane Center Tropical Prediction Center