Radar Research News

NSSL's mobile radar scans a dust storm near Phoenix, AZ.

NSSL partnership with private industry benefits thousands in Arizona

NSSL has a ten-year cooperative research venture with the Salt River Project (SRP), an Arizona power and water utility, to develop weather decision support tools for the company’s power dispatch, transmission operations, and water diversion.

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Phased array radar Spring 2012 projects

The NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Multi-function Phased Array Radar will support three experiments with data collection during the spring of 2012 as part of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE).

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Spread the word: We need your precipitation reports!

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.

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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 prepares to scan a thunderstorm in the desert near Phoenix, Ariz.

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.