Stories Tagged ‘mPING’

21Jan 2012

NSSL leverages new technologies in winter weather experiment

NSSL and collaborators will leverage new technology including dual-polarized radar observations and a precipitation reporting mobile device app to improve forecasts of winter weather during February and March.

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Screenshot of the mPING app for iPhone

NSSL Launches iPhone and Android Apps to collect precipitation reports from the public

The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), in partnership with the University of Oklahoma and has launched an app where users can anonymously report precipitation from their iPhone or Android through the “mobile Precipitation Identification Near the Ground “mPING” app.