Radar Research News

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.

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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.

The Multi-function Phased Array Radar captured the development of a tornado

Spring 2011 data collection

Severe weather in Oklahoma this spring has offered opportunities for collecting data.

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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.

The CLEAN-AP filter in action

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.