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Tag: Doppler radar
At AGU 2013: Are tornadoes getting stronger? No.
This AGU session asked that question directly and I covered this previously. Now that the video of the entire session is available, I thought it worth revisiting. Of course, the…
For discussion – the tornado "hockey stick"
I’m caught between sessions but wanted to post this. From a presentation at AGU that I couldn’t attend. This from SciAm: James Elsner at Florida State University has a killer…
NOAA shows that wind farms affect weather radar, and that affects their primary mission of forecasting and safety
“Chaotic wind velocities associated with the rotating turbine blades triggers the doppler radar mesocyclone detection algorithm” Note: this essay was written by the National Weather Service Forecast Office is Burlington,…
Are Tornadoes Getting Stronger? Rebuttal to Elsner et al.
By Paul Homewood http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSU-News/Researchers-develop-model-to-correct-tornado-records [Note Update Below] Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the…
Washington DC's derecho – not something new
Derechoes have been in the news in Washington as of late. No, that’s not some new breed of super bureaucrat, but it is something from a supercell sized thunderstorm that…
Stormchasing in Oklahoma
Well not exactly, there’s no storms here today, but there are a lot of vehicles like this one: I’m attending this conference, not as a storm chaser, but as a…
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