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Tag: Issue: Summer 2012

NSSL researchers join large, international flash flood project in Europe

Posted in Collaboration, Radar, Research News on September 12, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

NOAA, NASA and the University of Connecticut are representing the United States in the Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX), the largest weather field research project in European history.

Tags: flash flood, Gourley, Hot Items, HyMeX, Issue: Summer 2012, Mediterranean, NOXP, NSSL

New NOAA awards to fund studies of weather warnings, social media, Internet tools and public response

Posted in Outreach News on August 27, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the NOAA National Weather Service awarded funding for four, two-year projects to improve the way potentially life-saving weather warnings reach those who need them.

Tags: Issue: Summer 2012, social media, tornado, warnings

Super Rapid Scan Experiment combines satellite, radar and lightning observations

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on August 17, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

As storms moved across Oklahoma yesterday, the GOES-14 satellite, Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) and the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (OK-LMA) coordinated data collection for the first time as part of the Super Rapid Scan Experiment.

Tags: GOES-14, Hot Items, Issue: Summer 2012, MPAR, NSSL, OK-LMA

The Tornado “Drought” of 2012

Posted in Outreach News, Perspectives on August 3, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s Harold Brooks posted about “The Tornado “Drought” of 2012 on the U.S. Severe Weather Blog. Read about it here: http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2012/08/the-tornado-drought-of-2012/

Tags: Brooks, drought, Issue: Summer 2012, NSSL, tornado

NSSL scientist teaches students about weather in Barrow, Alaska

Posted in Outreach News, People News on August 3, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

A team of scientists including NSSL’s Bob Rabin introduced North Slope Alaska Native students from Barrow, Alaska, and other small villages to weather and climate science through two STEM courses recently.

Tags: Issue: Summer 2012, Outreach News, Rabin, STEM

Researchers plan first extensive U.S. study looking for link between cities and storms

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on August 1, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

A group of researchers, including NSSL’s Dave Stensrud, recently announced they plan to study the effects of cities on thunderstorms.

Tags: cities, Hot Items, Issue: Summer 2012, thunderstorm

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

Evolution of a Quasi-Linear Convective System Sampled by Phased Array Radar

Posted in Talks and Articles on July 2, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

The National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar in Norman, Oklahoma scanned a strong line of thunderstorms as it produced damaging wind events across central Oklahoma.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: Summer 2012

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