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Tag: Issue: July/August 2011

CI-FLOW provided useful predictions of total water level during Hurricane Irene

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on September 7, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
Irene CIFLOW

The Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) project began producing real-time 84-hour simulations of total water level in coastal North Carolina from Hurricane Irene on August 23, 2011.

Tags: CI-FLOW, Hurricane Irene, Issue: July/August 2011, neuse river, north carolina, tar river

CI-FLOW total water level system prepared for test by hurricane

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on August 24, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
Forecast track for Hurricane Irene

Researchers with the Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) project are preparing for Hurricane Irene to test their total water level prediction system in North Carolina later this week.

Tags: CI-FLOW, flood, Hot Items, Hurricane Irene, Issue: July/August 2011

Top weather minds unite in new video

Posted in Outreach News on August 19, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

A new outreach video about the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment was just released on YouTube. Created with a video game theme, the video opens with “Top weather minds unite in the quest for a better forecast.”

Tags: HWT, Issue: July/August 2011, Outreach News, Spring Experiment

Study investigates how future profiling observations improve forecasts

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on August 19, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Monthly Weather Review has published the results of an observation system simulation experiment (OSSE) that shows how measurements from various hypothetical remote-sensing networks would impact weather analyses and forecasts.

Tags: Forecast research, Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2011, OSSE

NSSL/CIMMS phased array radar team awarded DOC Gold Medal

Posted in People News on August 3, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Gold Medal to the NSSL/CIMMS Radar Research and Development Division for “scientific and engineering excellence in adapting military phased array radar technology to improve U.S. weather radar capabilities.”

Tags: CIMMS, DOC Gold Medal, Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2011, MPAR, NSSL, PAR, RRDD

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

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

NSSL hydrometeorologist featured on tribal news program

Posted in People News on July 21, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL hydrometeorologist Suzanne Van Cooten is featured on the Chickasaw Nation tribal news channel this month.

Tags: Chickasaw, Hot Items, hydrometeorologist, Issue: July/August 2011, Suzanne Van Cooten

Summer Thunder 2011 hosted by NSSL

Posted in Collaboration, Forecast Research News on July 21, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
NWC lightning

NSSL co-hosted the Southern Thunder 2011 Workshop at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. last week along with the NOAA Storm Prediction Center and the University of Oklahoma.

Tags: Issue: July/August 2011, lightning, lightning prediction, lightning science, NSSL, SPC

Study cautions use of lightning trends alone to diagnose severe weather potential

Posted in Radar, Research News on July 8, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Researchers from NSSL and CIMMS have published the first study to combine rapidly-updating phased array radar data with high-resolution lightning data to study lightning behavior in a hail storm.

Tags: flash rate, Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2011, lightning, PAR

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