Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Researchers Continue to Improve Operational Products
Hazardous weather research does not stop once the finalized product is in the hands of NOAA National Weather Service forecasters and decision makers. Research may continue to update and improve current products, like those with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor system.MRMS was developed to produce severe weather and precipitation products aimed at improving decision-making capabilities ...go to article
Posted - August 06, 2018
mPING Awarded for Help in Operational Meteorology
The National Weather Association recently awarded the mPING development team for help the application has provided in meteorology.The Meteorological Phenomena Identification Near the Ground – or mPING – team was awarded the Larry R. Johnson Special Award for significantly contributing to operational meteorology.“For creating the mPING applications which improved forecast operations by significantly ...go to article
Posted - July 24, 2018
CIMMS Employees Continue to Place at AMS Conferences
Several University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies travel to various American Meteorological Society conferences and professional development opportunities, sharing their research with others, throughout the summer.Among those was Sarah Borg, CIMMS employee and OU School of Meteorology graduate student. In early July Borg participated in AMS’ 15th Conference on Cloud ...go to article
Posted - July 24, 2018
CIMMS Employee Receives AMS Editor’s Award
The American Meteorological Society recently announced 2019 award and honor recipients. Among those named was CIMMS Researcher Kimberly Klockow-McClain.Klockow-McClain received an Editor’s Award for Weather Climate and Society. The reason provided for the award was, “for [Klockow-McClain’s] insightful, constructive, and extremely knowledgeable reviews.”Klockow-McClain is a research scientist ...go to article
Posted - July 12, 2018
NSSL Research Project Gathered Information About Tornadoes in New Way
NOAA researchers from the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory had a different view of tornadoes this spring — flying high above them in a NOAA P-3 “Hurricane Hunter” aircraft.During the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast project, or VORTEX-SE, scientists collected data on several isolated supercells and large convective systems during a short time span ...go to article
Posted - July 11, 2018
Save the Date: OU CIMMS Celebrates 40 Years on Nov. 15, 2018
Save the Date:The University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies celebrates 40 years on November 15, 2018 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, featuring presentations by CIMMS Director Greg McFarquhar, Jeff Kimpel, Pamela Heinselman, Sebastian Torres, Adam Clark, Don Burgess, Erik Rasmussen, and Kim Klockow McClain!go to article
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