The Impact of Range Oversampling Processing on Tornado Velocity Signatures Obtained from WSR-88D Super-Resolution Data. Authors: Torrres, S.M. and Curtis, C.D. Journal: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Publication Date: Online 7/28/15 Important Conclusions: Researchers applied “range oversampling,” a…
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Gab at the Lab: Sebastian Torres
If he were to write his autobiography, the title of the book might be “From Gaucho to Cowboy”. Sebastian Torres grew up in Argentina, and earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in his native…
2015 PARISE Experiment
This week, researchers from NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory will launch the 2015 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment to assess the impacts of rapidly updating radar data on forecasters’ warning decision performance. The project…
Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Team To Receive NOAA Silver Medal
One of the highest awards presented within NOAA will be awarded to the NSSL team that developed Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor, a system that helps forecasters manage the flood of weather data available to them. Under Secretary…
Gab at the Lab: Darrel Kingfield
He’s been around the National Weather Center since 2007, but you might not know everything he’s been up to! Darrel earned his bachelor’s degree in 2006 from Purdue University. After college, he was outsourced to…
Hydrometeorological Testbed 2015
During the week of July 20-24, six forecasters from NWS offices nationwide joined NSSL and CIMMS researchers for the final week of the Hydrometeorological Testbed. This project was supported by JJ Gourley, Steve Martinaitis, Race…
Significant Paper: 31 May 2013 El Reno Tornadoes: Advantages of Rapid-scan Phased Array Radar Data from a Warning Forecaster’s Perspective
31 May 2013 El Reno Tornadoes: Advantages of Rapid-scan Phased Array Radar Data from a Warning Forecaster’s Perspective. Authors: Kuster, C.M., Heinselman, P.L., Austin, M. Journal: Weather and Forecasting Publication Date: Online 6/12/15 Important conclusions: Researchers collaborated with the forecaster who issued…
Significant Paper: Automated Detection of Polarimeteric Tornadic Debris Signatures using A Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm
Automated Detection of Polarimeteric Tornadic Debris Signatures using A Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm Journal: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Publication Date: Online 7/2/2015 Authors: Snyder, Jeffrey C., Ryzhkov, Alexander. Important conclusions: Since debris lofted by tornadoes has scattering characteristics that are…
CIMMS/NSSL researchers work to get West Texas lightning data in AWIPS in time for severe weather
An NSSL/CIMMS and TTU team pushed hard to get lightning products functional for potential severe weather on April 16 and were successful.
NSSL/CIMMS scientist to brief NWS forecasters
Kristin Calhoun (NSSL/CIMMS) will give an invited webinar to National Weather Service meteorologists and hydrologists on April 1, 2015, about current lightning prediction products in research and development at NSSL.