NSSL is now collecting two types of winter weather reports from the public to help evaluate the performance of a new winter weather precipitation algorithm.
Category: Radar
NSSL/CIMMS hosting Chinese Ministry of Water Resources visitors
A team from the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) is in Norman, Okla., to work with NSSL’s National Mosaic and multi-sensor Quantitative precipitation estimation (NMQ) system.
NSSL’s mobile radar being used to help understand dust storms
NSSL’s dual-polarized mobile Doppler radar was used to study the skies during dust storm events in Arizona.
Study cautions use of lightning trends alone to diagnose severe weather potential
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.
Spring 2011 data collection
Severe weather in Oklahoma this spring has offered opportunities for collecting data.
PAR Captures Long-lived Tornado in May 24, 2011 Outbreak
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…
New technique cuts radar update times in half to speed up warnings
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.
Cleaning up the clutter on radars
NSSL/CIMMS researchers have developed a novel ground clutter filter that was just endorsed by the NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee for an engineering evaluation by the NWS Radar Operations Center.
NSSL uses weather radar clutter to help biologists
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.
An office and a workbench
With calls for his launch teams to report to the vehicle bay late at night to intercept approaching storms, it has been hard to tell Dave is trying to retire.