To find ways to better protect people from flash floods, researchers are spending this summer evaluating methods of observing rain and flash floods.
Equipment deployed to study the impact of burn scars, flash flooding
Tag: mobile radar
NSSL uses weather radar clutter to help biologists
Dual-polarized weather radar can estimate the number of bats in a swarm similar to the way it can estimate the number of raindrops in a cloud.
Mobile radar to assist weather nowcasting for 2010 Olympic Games
NSSL has sent a team of researchers and the dual-polarized X-Band mobile Doppler radar to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mobile radar heads to California for debris flow experiment
December 1, NSSL’s mobile radar team will begin to collect data with the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) in southern California to help monitor rainstorms that may trigger dangerous debris flows.
NSSL’s mobile radar collects data on summer storms in the Colorado mountains
A team of NSSL scientists operated NOAA NSSL’s mobile X-band dual-polarized radar (NO-XP) in Colorado through September 20 to collect data and analyze storm characteristics in the Gunnison river basin.
Mobile radar returns from California debris flow experiment
NSSL’s SMART-R team has deployed a mobile radar near a target burn area each winter to supply real-time close-up radar data during rain eventsA/USGS prototype Debris Flow Warning System experiment.