North Carolina Sea Grant and NOAA’s multi-agency CI-FLOW (Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning) project prepared for a test of their monitoring and prediction system as Tropical Storm Hanna approached North Carolina on Friday.…
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NSSL scientist arrives in Guam to study typhoons
NSSL’s Dave Jorgensen arrived at Andersen AFB in Guam on Friday August 22, 2008 to participate in TCS08 and T-PARC experiments. Jorgensen was invited as one of the Chief Scientists on the Naval Research Lab…
BAMS spotlights NSSL“Lightning Hunters”
“Lightning Hunters TELEX Explores Storm Electrification” is the cover article on the July, 2008 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). TELEX, the Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment, brought together researchers and…
NSSL to study impacts of microbursts on electric power operations
NSSL will operate the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) this summer in an effort to observe the lifecycle of strong microbursts and assess their impacts on the Salt River Project’s (SRP) electrical…
VORTEX2 Risk Analysis and Mitigation Project wrapped up
NSSL’s VORTEX-2 Risk Analysis and Mitigation Program (V2RAMP) wrapped up four weeks of testing in June with successful observations of storms in southern Kansas. The purpose of V2RAMP was to develop, install, and test the…
NSSL gears up for VORTEX-2 in 2009 and 2010
NSSL is gearing up for a two-year epic field program, VORTEX-2 (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment – 2). VORTEX-2 is set to run from April 20-June 15 of 2009 and 2010,…
SMART-Radar team wins NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award
The University of Oklahoma and NSSL Shared Mobile Atmospheric and Teaching Radar (SMART-radar) team was awarded the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award to upgrade one of the mobile C-band radars to dual-polarimetric capability.…
Midpoint Summary of Real-time PAR Experiment
The six-week 2008 Spring Real-time Phased Array Radar Demonstration in Norman, Oklahoma has reached its midpoint. The National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT PAR) captured three severe weather events so far during forecaster…
Phased Array Radar: Applications to Land falling tropical cyclones
NSSL scientists recently reported on the unusual opportunity to scan a tropical cyclone with an experimental radar located far from the coast. Using the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT PAR) in Norman,…
NSSL’s “On-Demand” Severe Storms Verification Support System
The NSSL “On-Demand” Severe Storm Verification system, funded by the NOAA High-Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC) is a new web-based query tool designed to help National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists quickly verify their severe…