NSSL scientists have been waiting for severe weather to test algorithm techniques on Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) radars located in central Oklahoma. The pretty fall weather has not cooperated until early this…
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NSSL works to create “drought-proof” water supply in Oklahoma
NSSL has joined the Arbuckle-Simpson Water Bank Project – an unprecedented effort to provide Oklahomans with the tools to create a “drought-proof” water supply. The Water Bank project will integrate and expand on existing weather,…
NOAA NSSL mobile dual-polarized Doppler radar captures Ike
The first dual-polarized Doppler radar data of a landfalling hurricane eyewall was collected as Hurricane Ike came ashore in Texas last weekend. The data was collected by a new mobile dual-polarized X-band radar (called NO-XP)…
NSSL hosts workshop to define future of storm research
NSSL is hosting the Advanced Weather and Society Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Workshop: Beyond Storm-Based Warnings, Communication of Probabilistic Hazard Information. The workshop will be held next week, September 15-17, 2008 in Norman, Oklahoma. The NOAA…
NOAA NSSL’s new mobile radar will be tested by Hurricane Ike
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory’s researchers will test a new mobile radar as Hurricane Ike makes landfall early Saturday morning. The dual-polarized X-band mobile radar built by NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers is called…
CI-FLOW prepared for test from Hanna
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.…
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…