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Innovation and Collaboration: Exploring the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed

Posted in News, Radar on July 28, 2023 by Wes Moody.

The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed provides a conceptual framework and a physical space to foster collaboration between research and operations to test, perfect and evaluate emerging technologies and science for NWS operations.

Tags: Featured, history, HWT, NOAA, NOAA NSSL, NWS, SPC, wfo

Severe storm research campaign kicks off second year of data gathering

Posted in News on February 9, 2023 by Wes Moody.
Balloon launch

Researchers prepare to launch an experimental weather balloon on April 5, 2022, near a storm in Greenville, Alabama. (NOAA) This winter has brought multiple rounds of devastating severe weather to the southeastern U.S., with more…

Tags: dual-pol, Featured, flash flood, lightning, NOAA, NSSL, NWS, PERiLS, Radar Research News, tornado, tornadoes, VORTEX-SE

Researchers leverage machine learning to improve forecasting tools

Posted in News on January 27, 2020 by Emily Jeffries.

Weather models are the basic building blocks of a forecast. Researchers leverage machine learning techniques in an effort to improve these tools.

Tags: CIMMS, Featured, Forecast Research News, models, NOAA

Information analysis: social science adds needed piece to the weather puzzle

Posted in Outreach News, Research News on November 8, 2017 by Emily Jeffries.

Increasing our knowledge of severe storms and improving the tools used to forecast them has been the singular mission of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory since it was formed more than 50 years ago…

Tags: Engineering and Medicine, Featured, Hot Items, HWT, National Academies of Sciences, NOAA, OU CIMMS, Social Science, VORTEX-SE

VIDEO: Into the heart of a storm

Posted in Collaboration, News, People News, Research News on August 22, 2017 by Emily Jeffries.
RIVORS: Rivers of Vorticity in Supercells

For more information, visit noaa.gov.

Tags: Featured, NOAA, RiVoRs, tornado, Video

Weather Reports from Citizens Provide Research Input

Posted in Forecast Research News, News, Research News on May 8, 2017 by Emily Jeffries.

Is it raining, snowing or hailing where you are? Tell us about it! Report the weather at your location any time on the mPING app to help NOAA researchers and forecasters, and join citizen scientists…

Tags: Citizen Science Days, Featured, Kim Elmore, mPING, NOAA, OU CIMMS

April 27 Reddit AMA: Tornado! Severe Weather Research & Prediction with NOAA

Posted in News, Research News, Talks and Articles on April 25, 2017 by Emily Jeffries.

Spring has arrived and with it come efforts to study and learn to better predict severe weather like tornadoes. Join NOAA for a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on severe weather research and prediction on April 27,…

Tags: NOAA, OU CIMMS, Reddit AMA, severe weather, Vortex Southeast, weather, weather research

Linda McGuckin Named NOAA Employee of the Month

Posted in People News on December 11, 2015 by Tanya Schoor.

Linda McGuckin was selected as NOAA Employee of the Month for December 2015.

Tags: award, NOAA, People News

2015 PARISE Experiment

Posted in Research News on August 3, 2015 by Tanya Schoor.

This week, researchers from NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory will launch the 2015 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment to assess the impacts of rapidly updating radar data on forecasters’ warning decision performance. The project…

Tags: CIMMS, experimental, Hot Items, NOAA, NSSL, PARISE, Radar Research News

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Team To Receive NOAA Silver Medal

Posted in Research News on July 30, 2015 by Tanya Schoor.

One of the highest awards presented within NOAA will be awarded to the NSSL team that developed Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor, a system that helps forecasters manage the flood of weather data available to them. Under Secretary…

Tags: award, CIMMS, Hot Items, medal, MRMS, NOAA, NSSL, silver

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