NSSL is hosting the Advanced Weather and Society Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Workshop: Beyond Storm-Based Warnings, Communication of Probabilistic Hazard Information. The workshop will be held next week, September 15-17, 2008 in Norman, Oklahoma. The NOAA…
NOAA NSSL’s new mobile radar will be tested by Hurricane Ike
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory’s researchers will test a new mobile radar as Hurricane Ike makes landfall early Saturday morning. The dual-polarized X-band mobile radar built by NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers is called…
CI-FLOW prepared for test from Hanna
North Carolina Sea Grant and NOAA’s multi-agency CI-FLOW (Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning) project prepared for a test of their monitoring and prediction system as Tropical Storm Hanna approached North Carolina on Friday.…
One-stop shopping for Norman NOAA Weather Partners com office
A brand-new Website was unveiled this week to offer one-stop shopping for information about the NOAA Weather Partners, located in Norman, Oklahoma: www.norman.noaa.gov. “The new Web site allows us to highlight the latest news, photos,…
OAR award goes to NSSL book author second year in a row
NSSL scientist and Chief of the Forecast Research Division David J. Stensrud has been awarded the 2008 OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award – Special Recognition Award for his book “Parameterization Schemes: Keys to Understanding Numerical…
NSSL scientist arrives in Guam to study typhoons
NSSL’s Dave Jorgensen arrived at Andersen AFB in Guam on Friday August 22, 2008 to participate in TCS08 and T-PARC experiments. Jorgensen was invited as one of the Chief Scientists on the Naval Research Lab…
BAMS spotlights NSSL“Lightning Hunters”
“Lightning Hunters TELEX Explores Storm Electrification” is the cover article on the July, 2008 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). TELEX, the Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment, brought together researchers and…
NSSL Scientists Honored by NOAA
NSSL scientist Kurt Hondl will receive the NOAA Technology Transfer Award “for team leadership during the development of the Warning Decision Support System – Integrated Information and for fostering its adopted use in the private…
NSSL hosts students to inspire future workforce in atmospheric science
Six undergraduate students from around the U.S. are at NSSL this summer working on research projects as part of the NOAA Hollings Scholars program. The prestigious program is designed to help encourage students to pursue…
NSSL to study impacts of microbursts on electric power operations
NSSL will operate the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) this summer in an effort to observe the lifecycle of strong microbursts and assess their impacts on the Salt River Project’s (SRP) electrical…