{"id":2972,"date":"2007-10-22T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2018-07-26T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:03:26","slug":"nssl-scientists-recognized-by-oar-for-outstanding-scientific-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2007\/10\/nssl-scientists-recognized-by-oar-for-outstanding-scientific-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSL scientists recognized by OAR for Outstanding Scientific Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award was given to NSSL&#8217;s Alexander Ryzhkov, Terry Schuur, Don Burgess, Pam Heinselman, Scott Giangrande and Dusan Zrnic for their paper on &#8220;The Joint Polarization Experiment: Polarimetric Rainfall Measurements and Hydrometeor Classification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The paper was the cover story published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in June, 2005 with the lead, &#8220;Window on the Weather: Testing the Polarimetric WSR-88D.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winning paper described the advantages of a polarimetric WSR-88D, confirmed during the Joint Polarization Experiment (JPOLE) demonstration project in Oklahoma. The OAR award honors the most original, important, useful, and outstanding peer-reviewed publications from OAR laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> NSSL conducted the Joint Polarization Experiment (JPOLE) in 2002-2003 to demonstrate the operational capabilities of a polarimetric Doppler radar. JPOLE proved that significant improvements in rainfall estimation, precipitation classification, data quality and weather hazard detection were possible using polarized radar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The entire national NEXRAD radar network will be upgraded in 2010-2011 with dual-polarization capability extending its functionality and effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award was given to NSSL&#8217;s Alexander Ryzhkov, Terry Schuur, Don Burgess, Pam Heinselman, Scott Giangrande and Dusan Zrnic for their paper on &#8220;The Joint Polarization Experiment: Polarimetric Rainfall Measurements and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-hot-items"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}