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Significant Paper: A Qualitative Analysis of NWS Forecasters’ Use of Phased-Array Radar Data during Severe Hail and Wind Event

Posted in Research News on February 3, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.

Qualitative findings from the 2013 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment and uses for social science in the forecaster warning decision process.

Tags: Hot Items, NWS, PAR, Radar Research News, research

Impacts of Phased Array Radar Data on Forecaster Performance during Severe Hail and Wind Events

Posted in Research News, Talks and Articles on February 17, 2015 by Susan Cobb.

Early online release 1/13/15 Journal: Weather and Forecasting Impacts of Phased Array Radar Data on Forecaster Performance during Severe Hail and Wind Events Katie A. Bowden, Pamela L. Heinselman, Darrel M. Kingfield, and Rick P.…

Tags: Hot Items, NWS, PAR, PARISE, warning decision

NSSL/CIMMS researchers to share cutting-edge radar research in Europe

Posted in Research News, Talks and Articles on September 3, 2014 by Susan Cobb.

Researchers from NSSL/CIMMS will share the latest radar research at the 8th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology September 1-5 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Tags: dual-pol, ERAD 2014, European Radar Conference, Hot Items, NSSL, PAR, Radar Research News

2013 NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Spring Experiments

Posted in Radar, Research News on May 6, 2013 by Susan Cobb.

During the 2013 central Oklahoma severe weather season, researchers will demonstrate and evaluate new capabilities developed for the NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT/PAR).

Tags: dual-pol, Hot Items, Issue: Spring 2013, MPAR, PAR, PARISE

NSSL/CIMMS phased array radar team awarded DOC Gold Medal

Posted in People News on August 3, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Gold Medal to the NSSL/CIMMS Radar Research and Development Division for “scientific and engineering excellence in adapting military phased array radar technology to improve U.S. weather radar capabilities.”

Tags: CIMMS, DOC Gold Medal, Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2011, MPAR, NSSL, PAR, RRDD

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

Spring 2011 data collection

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

Severe weather in Oklahoma this spring has offered opportunities for collecting data.

Tags: June 2011, may 24, MPAR, PAR

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

PAR Captures Long-lived Tornado in May 24, 2011 Outbreak

Posted in Radar on May 25, 2011 by NSSL Webmaster.

The tornado outbreak forecasted by the NOAA Storm Prediction Center and the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Norman, Oklahoma became a reality as five damage-producing tornadoes struck central Oklahoma between 3 pm and 7…

Tags: PAR, PARISE, Radar Research News, tornadoes

New technique cuts radar update times in half to speed up warnings

Posted in Radar, Research News on March 25, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
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As severe weather approaches central Oklahoma this spring, NSSL/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies researchers will be able to study fast-changing storms using a new radar processing technique.

Tags: curtis, Hot Items, Issue: March 2011, NWRT, PAR, range oversampling, Torres

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