NSSL is taking this opportunity to celebrate the career of Bob Davies-Jones, who will be retiring on January 3, 2009. Davies-Jones has had an impactful 38-year career with the lab, sharing his tornado expertise with…
Every PING counts! NSSL looks to local community to help with research
Are snowflakes fallin’ on your head? Are you getting pinged by ice pellets? NSSL is requesting observations of winter precipitation from volunteers in a 150km radius of Norman Oklahoma. More than 2,600 observations have been…
NSSL’s SMART-Radar team deployed to help improve debris flow warnings
The NSSL Shared Mobile Atmospheric and Research Teaching Radar (SMART-R) team is preparing for its fourth deployment as part of the NOAA and U.S. Geological Survey Demonstration Flash Flood and Debris Flow Early Warning System…
It’s National Weather Festival time!
NSSL is preparing for the fourth annual National Weather Festival on Saturday, November 8, 2008 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the National Weather Center. Organizers are anticipating crowds of 2000-3000 visitors. The Norman Chamber of…
NSSL reaches out with “That Weather Show” podcasts
NSSL staff created a new outreach tool called “That Weather Show.” That Weather Show recently launched by NOAA Weather Partners offers a number of short podcasts covering a wide range of topics. NSSL is working…
NSSL researchers receive prestigious awards from AMS
The American Meteorology Society (AMS) has announced the recipients of the 2009 AMS Awards including two NSSL researchers. Awardees will be honored at the AMS Conference January 11-16, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. REMOTE SENSING PRIZE…
Strong contingent of NSSL researchers presenting at SLS conference
NSSL will have a strong presence at the American Meteorological Society Severe Local Storms Conference October 27-31, 2008 in Savannah Georgia. NSSL scientists are presenting their research as lead authors on 14 papers, 12 posters,…
“Severe clear” hampered radar test until this morning
NSSL scientists have been waiting for severe weather to test algorithm techniques on Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) radars located in central Oklahoma. The pretty fall weather has not cooperated until early this…
NSSL works to create “drought-proof” water supply in Oklahoma
NSSL has joined the Arbuckle-Simpson Water Bank Project – an unprecedented effort to provide Oklahomans with the tools to create a “drought-proof” water supply. The Water Bank project will integrate and expand on existing weather,…
NOAA NSSL mobile dual-polarized Doppler radar captures Ike
The first dual-polarized Doppler radar data of a landfalling hurricane eyewall was collected as Hurricane Ike came ashore in Texas last weekend. The data was collected by a new mobile dual-polarized X-band radar (called NO-XP)…