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Equipment deployed to study the impact of burn scars, flash flooding

Posted in News on August 30, 2019 by Emily Jeffries.

To find ways to better protect people from flash floods, researchers are spending this summer evaluating methods of observing rain and flash floods.

Tags: Colorado, Featured, flood, flooding, mobile radar, NOXP

Mountaintop radar

Posted in News on June 23, 2014 by Susan Cobb.
Tags: Featured, Gourley, IPHEx, NC, NOXP, NSSL

NSSL’s mobile radar part of debris flow project in North Carolina

Posted in Research News on May 15, 2014 by Susan Cobb.
IPHEx

Through June, NSSL is partnering with the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology EXperiment (IPHEX) to understand warm season precipitation caused by complex terrain in the area, and the relationship between precipitation patterns and hydrologic processes.

Tags: basin, debris flow, Hot Items, IPHEx, north carolina, NOXP, NSSL, Pigeon River

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

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

NSSL’s mobile radar being used to help understand dust storms

Posted in Radar, Research News on July 28, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s dual-polarized mobile Doppler radar was used to study the skies during dust storm events in Arizona.

Tags: arizona, dust storm, haboob, Hot Items, microburst, NOXP, NSSL, phoenix

NSSL scientists study tornadoes in their own backyard

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on June 1, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

Seven destructive tornadoes struck Oklahoma on May 24, 2011. The tornadoes were well forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS), and NSSL was in position to capture the storms in several ways.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: May 2011, NOXP, oklahoma, PAR, supercell, tornadoes, wdssii

NSSL uses weather radar clutter to help biologists

Posted in Radar, Research News on March 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: bats, dual-pol, Hot Items, Issue: February 2011, mobile radar, NOXP

NSSL deploys mobile radar to help with winter weather forecasts

Posted in Forecast Research News, Research News on February 8, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
NO-XP in Colorado

NSSL deployed the NOAA X-Pol mobile radar in southwestern Colorado over the weekend as part of the Southwest Colorado Radar project to collect data on snowfall in the area. The project continues through the end of February, 2011.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: February 2011, NOXP, Southwest Colorado Radar Project, Vasiloff

NSSL’s mobile radar team goes to the Olympics

Posted in Collaboration, Radar on March 1, 2010 by Susan Cobb.
NO-XP staff in Birch Bay

Researchers from NSSL’s Radar Research and Development Division are perfecting their radar relay handoff as they rotate through Birch Bay, Washington to operate the NOAA-Xband dual-POLarized (NO-XP) mobile radar in support of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Tags: Issue: February 2010, NOXP, RRDD

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