Stories Tagged ‘MPAR’

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2013 NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Spring Experiments

During the 2013 central Oklahoma severe weather season, researchers will demonstrate and evaluate new capabilities developed for the NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT/PAR).

NSSL team releases Spring 2013 radar software upgrades

Twice each year NSSL engineers release a software upgrade to improve the capabilities of the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT PAR). The Spring 2013 upgrade was released this week and is now operational.

GOES-14 image from August 16, 2012

Super Rapid Scan Experiment combines satellite, radar and lightning observations

As storms moved across Oklahoma yesterday, the GOES-14 satellite, Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) and the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (OK-LMA) coordinated data collection for the first time as part of the Super Rapid Scan Experiment.

Lowering west of PAR, 2006

NSSL/CIMMS phased array radar team awarded DOC Gold Medal

The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Gold Medal to the NSSL/CIMMS Radar Research and Development Division for “scientific and engineering excellence in adapting military phased array radar technology to improve U.S. weather radar capabilities.”

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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