March 2011 Issue

Discovery channel production

700 Texas schools take live virtual field trip of weather center

Elementary and middle school students and teachers from across the state of Texas were taken on live virtual field trips of the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. On March 2, 2011.

Range oversampling example

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.