Stories Tagged ‘NSSL’

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.

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The Tornado “Drought” of 2012

NSSL’s Harold Brooks posted about “The Tornado “Drought” of 2012 on the U.S. Severe Weather Blog. Read about it here: http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2012/08/the-tornado-drought-of-2012/

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

NSSL partnership with private industry benefits thousands in Arizona

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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We celebrate Doug Forsyth! Retiring at the end of June…

Doug Forsyth, Chief of NSSL’s Radar Research and Development Division is retiring at the end of June. We celebrate Doug’s career and his character by reposting this 2008 spotlight story…”Changes in latitudes…Jimmy Buffett goes south, but Doug Forsyth goes north.”

Hurricane Irene in 2011

2012 Atlantic hurricane season to provide CI-FLOW research opportunity

The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will provide a valuable research opportunity for the Coastal and Inland-Flooding Observation and Warning Project (CI-FLOW).