Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) is a multiagency radar initiative. This paper provides an overview of the MPAR program.
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VORTEX-SE Field Campaign
Read more about VORTEX-Southeast, a research project coordinated by NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Significant Paper: Multi-radar Multi-sensor (MRMS) Severe Weather and Aviation Products: Initial Operating Capabilities
Summary of the initial operating capabilities of the MRMS-Severe Weather applications and 3D radar mosaicking capability.
Significant Paper: A Qualitative Analysis of NWS Forecasters’ Use of Phased-Array Radar Data during Severe Hail and Wind Event
Qualitative findings from the 2013 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment and uses for social science in the forecaster warning decision process.
Clouds Enhance Greenland Ice Sheet Meltwater Runoff
NSSL’s Dave Turner has co-authored a paper which appears in Nature Communications this month.
mPING Weather App Goes Global
Citizen scientists around the world, not just those in the United States, can now submit weather observations and view reports on the go using the newly upgraded mPING smart phone application. Developers from NOAA’s National…
Significant Paper: Evaluation of a Probabilistic Forecasting Methodology for Severe Convective Weather in the 2014 Hazardous Weather Testbed
A proposed methodology for issuing Probabilistic Hazard Information for severe convective weather, as opposed to the warnings issued by the National Weather Service today.
Significant Paper: MRMS QPE PERFORMANCE DURING THE 2013-14 COOL SEASON
NSSL researchers made the first direct comparisons of MRMS Q3 radar only precipitation estimates with Dual Pol and NCEP Stage II estimates.
VORTEX-SE Workshop to be Held in November
The first invitation-only VORTEX-SE Workshop will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, November 9-10, 2015, outlining themes for the Spring project.
2016 AMS Awards
NSSL’s Dr. James F. Kimpel and Richard J. Doviak will receive American Meteorological Society awards at the annual conference in January.