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Month: March 2011

700 Texas schools take live virtual field trip of weather center

Posted in Outreach News on March 25, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
Discovery channel production

Elementary and middle school students and teachers from across the state of Texas were taken on live virtual field trips of the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. On March 2, 2011.

Tags: Discovery Channel, Hot Items, Issue: March 2011, NWC, virtual field trip

New technique cuts radar update times in half to speed up warnings

Posted in Radar, Research News on March 25, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
Range oversampling example

As severe weather approaches central Oklahoma this spring, NSSL/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies researchers will be able to study fast-changing storms using a new radar processing technique.

Tags: curtis, Hot Items, Issue: March 2011, NWRT, PAR, range oversampling, Torres

Cleaning up the clutter on radars

Posted in Radar, Research News on March 23, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL/CIMMS researchers have developed a novel ground clutter filter that was just endorsed by the NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee for an engineering evaluation by the NWS Radar Operations Center.

Tags: CLEAN-AP, ground clutter, Hot Items, Issue: March 2011, Radar Research News, Torres, Warde

Science journal publishes article on weather radar tracking bats

Posted in Talks and Articles on March 7, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The 25 February 2011 Volume 331 issue of Science published an article featuring NSSL’s mobile radar.

Tags: bats, Issue: February 2011

First annual Warn-on-Forecast workshop

Posted in Collaboration, Warning Research News on March 7, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The first annual workshop for the Warn-on-Forecast project was held on 23 February 2011 in Norman, Oklahoma, on the University of Oklahoma campus.

Tags: Issue: February 2011, warn-on-forecast, WoF

NOAA names new director of NSSL

Posted in People News on March 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Steve Koch will join NSSL as the new director in April.

Tags: director, Issue: February 2011, Koch

NSSL uses weather radar clutter to help biologists

Posted in Radar, Research News on March 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Dual-polarized weather radar can estimate the number of bats in a swarm similar to the way it can estimate the number of raindrops in a cloud.

Tags: bats, dual-pol, Hot Items, Issue: February 2011, mobile radar, NOXP

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