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NOAA Reveals New Radar
Oklahoma University and the National Weather Center cut the ceremonial ribbon on the first NWS quality Dual-Polarization radar this week.
The event was covered by Paul Harrop who was behind the camera for KOCO’s story, which can be found here:
http://www.koco.com/video/19096420/index.html
Tags: forecasting, nowcast, technology
Brian Barnes recently entered a photograph of a supercell that occurred in Nebraska on June 16, 2011 into Week 14 of National Geographic’s “Travelers Photo Contest.” The photo was one of 20 picked as an “Editor’s Favorite” for Week 14.
We received several request for this print to be made into a poster – so here it is. No text – just a large 20 x 30 in print of this incredible tornado event!
As most know by now, I do a lot of volunteer work in the ocean activism community when I’m not storm chasing in Tornado Alley. I was in Otsuchi Japan (Iwate Prefecture) on March 11th, 2011 monitoring the slaughter of Dall’s porpoises for Ric O’Barry’s Save Japan Dolphins and standing just a few feet from the water on a man made pier in the middle of Otsuchi harbor when the M9.0 earthquake hit.
NASA’s TRMM Satellite is providing meteorologist with a lot of unique opportunities to study tropical rainfall rates, and tropical cyclones. TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) has an on-board radar that can scan storms with incredible accuracy from space.
Brian Barnes recently entered a photograph of a supercell that occurred in Nebraska on June 16, 2011 into Week 14 of National Geographic’s “Travelers Photo Contest.” The photo was one of 20 picked as an “Editor’s Favorite” for Week 14.
Our new storm chasing tour schedule for 2011 is available at StormTours.com.
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Very interesting video. How much of an impact do you forsee on the forecasting or spotting of tornados? Will you have access to this radar during any of your storm chases?
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