An online interactive tool to automatically identify and track convective clusters from satellite and radar data has been developed by a team that includes NSSL researchers.
Category: Research News
Tropical Storm Ida gives CI-FLOW research opportunity
Tropical Storm Ida gave the Coastal and Inland – Flooding Observation and Warning project (CI-FLOW) team a valuable research opportunity this week to demonstrate, in real-time, the capability to use NSSL’s real-time gridded quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) in the CI-FLOW river models.
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 to host second national symposium on MPAR
“Moving Forward with Risk Reduction for Cost Effective Service Improvements” is the theme for the second symposium to be hosted by NSSL on the latest developments in Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR).
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.
SHAVE: Experiment collects severe weather data through phone calls
Students working for the National Severe Storms Laboratory are spending their summers making phone calls to the public affected by severe thunderstorms.
2009 HWT Spring Experiment: Experimental Forecast Program
The Experimental Forecasting Program (EFP) branch of the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed conducted its annual 2009 Spring Experiment, organized by the SPC and the National Severe Storms Laboratory, from May 4 through June 5.
NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed 2009 Spring Experiment
Each year dozens of visiting scientists, model developers, faculty members and graduate students from around the world gather for the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment.
Improved severe weather warnings targeted
The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Experimental Warning Program (EWP) is conducted its 2009 Spring Experiment at the National Weather Center (NWC) in Norman, Oklahoma for six weeks this past Spring.
VORTEX2 National Press Release issued
VORTEX2 National Press Release issued NOAA issued a press release yesterday announcing VORTEX2, the largest and most ambitious project in history to study tornadoes. The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment2 (VORTEX2…