Stories Tagged ‘NOXP’

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Over the next three months, NSSL researcher will operate the NOAA-XPol mobile radar in southeast France as part of the HyMeX experiment, the largest weather field research project in European history.

NSSL researchers join large, international flash flood project in Europe

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012  ·  Posted in Radar Research News

NOAA, NASA and the University of Connecticut are representing the United States in the Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX), the largest weather field research project in European history.

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

NSSL partnership with private industry benefits thousands in Arizona

Monday, July 9th, 2012  ·  Posted in Radar Research News

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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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

Thursday, July 28th, 2011  ·  Posted in Radar Research News

NSSL’s dual-polarized mobile Doppler radar was used to study the skies during dust storm events in Arizona.

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May 24, 2011 Oklahoma tornadoes

NSSL scientists study tornadoes in their own backyard

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011  ·  Posted in Forecast Research News

Seven destructive tornadoes struck Oklahoma on May 24, 2011. The tornadoes were well forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS), and NSSL was in position to capture the storms in several ways.

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NSSL uses weather radar clutter to help biologists

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011  ·  Posted in Radar Research News

Dual-polarized weather radar can estimate the number of bats in a swarm similar to the way it can estimate the number of raindrops in a cloud.

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