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tornadoes-2024-dow-zdr-harlan·dataset

The shape of debris and rain in the Harlan, Iowa tornado, from the DOW7 mobile radar (2024)

DOW7 Differential Reflectivity (Harlan, IA)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A radar measure (differential reflectivity) of the shape and size of objects in the air inside the EF-3 tornado that hit Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024, helping tell raindrops from tumbling debris.

How it's made. Captured by DOW7, a truck-mounted mobile Doppler-on-Wheels weather radar driven close to the storm.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers identify lofted debris and study what a tornado is picking up.

What's measured

tornadoes2024dowzdrharlan

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-04-26 → 2024-04-26
  • Spatial extent-95.42, 41.62, -95.3, 41.72
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Differential Reflectivity values collected by DOW7 from the Harlan, Iowa EF-3 tornado on April 26, 2024 at 23:08:12.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("tornadoes-2024-dow-zdr-harlan")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).