Stories Tagged ‘phoenix’

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.

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

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

Dust storm

Wall of dirt

A wall of dirt engulfs the Phoenix metro area for the second time in July, 2011.