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The National Severe Storms Laboratory serves the nation by working to improve the leadtime and accuracy of severe weather warnings and forecasts in order to save lives and reduce property damage. NSSL scientists are committed to their mission to understand the causes of severe weather and explore new ways to use weather information to assist National Weather Service forecasters and federal, university and private sector partners.
At NSSL, our basic and applied research focuses on understanding severe weather processes, developing weather observation technology, and improving forecast tools, with emphasis on:
- WEATHER RADAR
- HYDROMETEOROLOGY
- FORECAST & WARNING IMPROVEMENTS
NSSL Hot Items
Clouds Enhance Greenland Ice Sheet Meltwater Runoff
NSSL’s Dave Turner has co-authored a paper which appears in Nature Communications this month.
mPING Weather App Goes Global
Citizen scientists around the world, not just those in the United States, can now submit weather observations and view reports on the go using the newly upgraded mPING smart phone…
Significant Paper: Evaluation of a Probabilistic Forecasting Methodology for Severe Convective Weather in the 2014 Hazardous Weather Testbed
A proposed methodology for issuing Probabilistic Hazard Information for severe convective weather, as opposed to the warnings issued by the National Weather Service today.
Significant Paper: MRMS QPE PERFORMANCE DURING THE 2013-14 COOL SEASON
NSSL researchers made the first direct comparisons of MRMS Q3 radar only precipitation estimates with Dual Pol and NCEP Stage II estimates.