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Category: Warning Research News

Super Rapid Scan Experiment combines satellite, radar and lightning observations

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on August 17, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

As storms moved across Oklahoma yesterday, the GOES-14 satellite, Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) and the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (OK-LMA) coordinated data collection for the first time as part of the Super Rapid Scan Experiment.

Tags: GOES-14, Hot Items, Issue: Summer 2012, MPAR, NSSL, OK-LMA

Oklahoma lightning mapping array now expanded

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on May 21, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s Field Observing Facilities Support (FOFS) team just finished installing seven new lightning mapping stations in the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (OKLMA).

Tags: DC3, Hot Items, Issue: June 2012, LMA, NSSL, OKLMA

Scientists launch study of thunderstorm impacts on upper atmosphere

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on May 4, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

More than 100 researchers from NOAA and 29 other organizations are collaborating on a field project this spring to discover how thunderstorms act like elevators, taking pollution and water-rich air from the surface and lofting it straight up into the upper troposphere.

Tags: DC3, Hot Items, Issue: May 2012, lightning, nitric oxide, ozone

A Weather-Ready Nation: A Vital Conversation

Posted in Outreach News, Warning Research News on February 25, 2012 by Susan Cobb.

National experts from across the country met on the University of Oklahoma campus Dec. 13-15 to help America better prepare for and survive extreme weather.

Tags: Issue: Winter 2012, joplin, NSSL, weather ready nation, WRN

NSSL establishes research partnership with the U.K.

Posted in Collaboration, Outreach News, Warning Research News on November 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL has established a three-year joint research effort with the United Kingdom’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) to focus on hazardous and severe weather forecasts and warnings, and the design, development and use of weather radar systems.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: November/December 2011, MOA, NCAS, NSSL

NSSL helps Phoenix power company brace for sand storms

Posted in Collaboration, Research News, Warning Research News on August 2, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

An NSSL algorithm developed in collaboration with Arizona’s Salt River Project (SRP) alerts the power company of the potential for a dust storm.

Tags: algorithm, dust storm, haboob, Issue: July/August 2011, NSSL, srp

Valuable severe weather dataset collected by students

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on May 27, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The NSSL/CIMMS Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) are collecting hail, wind damage and flash flooding reports through phone surveys from now through mid-August.

Tags: hail, Hot Items, Issue: May 2011, SHAVE

New system automatically detects supercell thunderstorms

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on April 27, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

NWS forecasters will be evaluating a new weather-adaptive three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) system from NSSL/CIMMS that automatically detects and analyzes supercell thunderstorms during the 2011 Experimental Warning Program in the Hazardous Weather Testbed.

Tags: 3DVAR, circulations, Hot Items, Issue: March/April 2011

First annual Warn-on-Forecast workshop

Posted in Collaboration, Warning Research News on March 7, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

The first annual workshop for the Warn-on-Forecast project was held on 23 February 2011 in Norman, Oklahoma, on the University of Oklahoma campus.

Tags: Issue: February 2011, warn-on-forecast, WoF

Observations test theories

Posted in People News, Warning Research News on January 6, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
HDPI preparing for launch

NSSL’s fleet of mobile research facilities (excluding mobile radars) have been under Dave’s watchful eye and direction for decades.

Tags: Dave Rust, HD particle imager, Issue: January 2011

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