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NSSL partnership with private industry benefits thousands in Arizona

Posted in Collaboration, Radar, Research News on July 9, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL has a ten-year cooperative research venture with the Salt River Project (SRP), an Arizona power and water utility, to develop weather decision support tools for the company’s power dispatch, transmission operations, and water diversion.

Tags: haboob, Hot Items, Issue: Summer 2012, NOXP, NSSL, phoenix, srp

NSSL helps Phoenix power company brace for sand storms

Posted in Collaboration, Research News, Warning Research News on August 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

An NSSL algorithm developed in collaboration with Arizona’s Salt River Project (SRP) alerts the power company of the potential for a dust storm.

Tags: algorithm, dust storm, haboob, Issue: July/August 2011, NSSL, srp

NSSL’s mobile radar being used to help understand dust storms

Posted in Radar, Research News on July 28, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s dual-polarized mobile Doppler radar was used to study the skies during dust storm events in Arizona.

Tags: arizona, dust storm, haboob, Hot Items, microburst, NOXP, NSSL, phoenix

Wall of dirt

Posted in Perspectives, Photo of the Month on July 21, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
Dust storm

A wall of dirt engulfs the Phoenix metro area for the second time in July, 2011.

Tags: arizona, dust storm, haboob, Issue: July/August 2011, phoenix

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