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Up up and away!

Posted in Photo of the Month on August 13, 2013 by Susan Cobb.
Tags: ballooning, electric field meter, Featured, lightning, NSSL, particle imager, storm electricity

Scientists launch study of thunderstorm impacts on upper atmosphere

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on May 4, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

More than 100 researchers from NOAA and 29 other organizations are collaborating on a field project this spring to discover how thunderstorms act like elevators, taking pollution and water-rich air from the surface and lofting it straight up into the upper troposphere.

Tags: DC3, Hot Items, Issue: May 2012, lightning, nitric oxide, ozone

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

Flashy storm

Posted in Perspectives, Photo of the Month on November 17, 2010 by Susan Cobb.

A simulation of a Florida thunderstorm showing two lightning flashes (upper-level intracloud and a negative cloud-to-ground). Light gray is the cloud boundary, darker gray is 35 dBZ reflectivity. 2D color slice is simulated NEXRAD reflectivity.

Tags: isosurface, Issue: October/November 2010, lightning, Mansell, simulation, thunderstorm

JJ Gourley’s winning photo!

Posted in Photo of the Month on November 18, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s JJ Gourley received first place in the OAR “Research Tools of the Trade” category for his shot of a lightning strike with a VORTEX2 mobile mesonet in the foreground.

Tags: Issue: November 2009, lightning, photo, vortex2

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