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Gourley receives AMS Editor award
Dr. Jonathan .J. Gourley, NSSL research hydrometeorologist has received a 2013 AMS Editor’s Award for his “insightful, timely and thorough” reviews for the Journal of Hydrometeorology. Congratulations!
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NSSL Launches iPhone and Android Apps to collect precipitation reports from...
Screenshot of the mPING app for iPhone The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), in partnership with the University of Oklahoma and has launched an app where users can anonymously report...
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NSSL unveils re-designed web presence
The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory has just launched a completely redesigned website to showcase NSSL’s leadership and success in severe weather research. The site features new content and an...
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Recent significant papers released online
(OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies) Tornado path length forecasts from 2010 – 2011 using ensemble updraft helicity Journal: Weather...
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Warn-on-Forecast Week!
Researchers and forecasters talk Warn-on-Forecast The NOAA NSSL hosted the Technical Workshop on Numerical Guidance Support Warn-on-Forecast on Tuesday February 5. The fourth annual Warn on Forecast...
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Brooks receives prestigious Science Communicator Award
Harold addresses a crowd on VORTEX2 Media Day Dr. Robert Detrick, NOAA Research Assistant Administrator has announced that our very own Harold Brooks received the OAR Dr. Daniel L. Albritton...
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NSSL leverages new technologies in winter weather experiment
Dual-pol radar data of a winter precipitation event in New York. NSSL and collaborators will leverage new technology including dual-polarized radar observations and a precipitation reporting mobile...
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High and Dry – Probing Greenland’s Atmosphere and Clouds
- by Matthew Shupe (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies) High atop the Greenland Ice Sheet, cloudy skies portend warmer temperatures and higher winds. These clouds alter the...
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New video: NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory Radar Research
New video about NSSL radar research NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory has led the nation in severe weather research for more than 40 years. A new video traces NSSL’s legacy of life saving...
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NSSL team releases Spring 2013 radar software upgrades
Twice each year NSSL engineers release a software upgrade to improve the capabilities of the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT PAR). The Spring 2013 upgrade was released this...
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NSSL, partners: Thin, low Arctic clouds played an important role in the...
Thin low clouds over Greenland caused unusual melting. Better understanding of Arctic clouds will help improve climate and weather forecasts Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were...
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NSSL researcher works with Native Alaskan students on weather and climate
Students make observations in Barrow NSSL’s Bob Rabin attended the 18th Inuit Studies conference at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. last October. He was there to support Native Alaskan...
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R2O success in Birmingham
The NWSFO in Birmingham, Ala. used an NSSL product to plan surveys of damage caused by the tornadoes yesterday. The NWSFO in Birmingham, Ala. used an NSSL product to plan surveys of damage caused by...
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Renowned physicist to speak at National Weather Center
Slakey to speak at NWC The National Weather Center will host renowned physicist Dr. Francis Slakey, Associate Director of Public Affairs at the American Physical Society, at 4 p.m. April 23 in Room...
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Record low estimated tornado counts from May 2012 to April 2013
Tornado in Wyoming NSSL tornado climatology expert, Harold Brooks has written a blog post about the remarkable absence of tornado activity during the 12-month period from May 2012 to April 2013. The...
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2013 NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Spring Experiments
During the 2013 central Oklahoma severe weather season, researchers will demonstrate and evaluate new capabilities developed for the NOAA National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar (NWRT/PAR)....
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Worldwide diversity in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiments
Map of where visiting forecasters/researchers to the @NOAAHWT warning program have come from since 2007.
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10K Followers on Twitter
On May 9, 2013 @NSSL snagged our 10,000 Twitter follower! We have 23K folks on Facebook. Thank you so much for your interest in our work. We will keep it coming!
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Field project begins to improve thunderstorm prediction
Today, researchers launched the Mesoscale Predictability EXperiment (MPEX) field project to collect data on pre-storm and post-storm environments in an effort to better predict where and when...
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