An online interactive tool to automatically identify and track convective clusters from satellite and radar data has been developed by a team that includes NSSL researchers.
Author: Susan Cobb
NSSL researcher publishes book on radar techniques
NSSL/CIMMS researcher Igor Ivic authored a book that provides a comprehensive analysis of a novel approach to effectively enhance the signal detection on polarimetric weather radars.
NSSL’s Dave Stensrud teaches course in China
NSSL’s Dave Stensrud, Ph.D., recently gave a Short Course on “Parameterization Schemes for Numerical Weather Prediction Models” at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Tropical Storm Ida gives CI-FLOW research opportunity
Tropical Storm Ida gave the Coastal and Inland – Flooding Observation and Warning project (CI-FLOW) team a valuable research opportunity this week to demonstrate, in real-time, the capability to use NSSL’s real-time gridded quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) in the CI-FLOW river models.
Mobile radar heads to California for debris flow experiment
December 1, NSSL’s mobile radar team will begin to collect data with the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) in southern California to help monitor rainstorms that may trigger dangerous debris flows.
BAMS publishes two NSSL articles
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published two articles by NSSL in the October, 2009 issue.
National Weather Festival attracts 4,500 people
The 5th Annual National Weather Festival drew 4,500 people last Saturday, November 7 to the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla.
JJ Gourley’s winning photo!
NSSL’s JJ Gourley received first place in the OAR “Research Tools of the Trade” category for his shot of a lightning strike with a VORTEX2 mobile mesonet in the foreground.
NSSL to host second national symposium on MPAR
“Moving Forward with Risk Reduction for Cost Effective Service Improvements” is the theme for the second symposium to be hosted by NSSL on the latest developments in Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR).
NSSL researcher invited speaker at 2009 International Radar Conference
NSSL/CIMMS researcher Dr. Sebastian Torres discussed recent progress on Phased Array Radar technology as an invited keynote speaker at the 2009 International Radar Conference in Bordeaux, France.