Ask research scientists your questions, go behind the scenes with OU Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological research tools, and much more during the virtual National Weather Festival!
National Weather Festival goes virtual Oct. 26-31!
Minority Serving Graduate Research Assistantship
CIMMS is pleased to announce our first minority serving graduate assistantship! Please see the devoted page for details – you can find it under the “Research” tab in our site navigation bar or can follow the link below. https://cimms.ou.edu/index.php/minority-serving-graduate-research-assistantship
OU SMART Radar Team to Intercept Hurricane Laura
The University of Oklahoma’s Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching (SMART) radar team is deploying two mobile weather radars to the northern Gulf Coast to study the landfall of what is expected to become Hurricane Laura. The project is sponsored by the National Institute for Standards and Technology as part of their National Windstorm Research […]
OU CIMMS launches school-aged science classes
OU CIMMS launches school-aged science classes The Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma is excited to announce the launch of the virtual learning experience, OU CIMMS Science Class. The videos are a compilation of science classes presented by OU CIMMS researchers. Each video features a short presentation and interactive experiment for school ages first grade through middle […]
ARM Data Quality Office Celebrates Two Decades Of Service
‘IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DATA’ For those close to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility, an unofficial slogan might be, “It’s all about the data.” But the users who integrate ARM data in their research may say, “It’s all about the quality of the data.” Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the ARM Data Quality (DQ) […]
Recently Published: Climate Studies
Climate scientists are increasingly important to understanding how society relates to its environment. Yet, we still don’t know much about how social processes shape what climate science looks like — including who practices it, how climate knowledge is made, and how such knowledge is applied. Knowing more about these social processes can improve science. Zeke […]
Founder of Instrumental Radar Techniques Passes Away
A member of the meteorology community, Leslie “Les” Lemon, passed away in late May. Lemon was an eminent radar meteorologist during his career and saw it as his mission to aid forecasters on the interpretation of what they saw before the formalization of forecaster training. Lemon had an extensive resume. He worked for CIMMS, the […]
Research Continues to Improve Forecasting Tools
Weather forecasters use a suite of sophisticated computer models to help them predict the weather every day. To make better forecasts, you need better models. That’s where researchers play an important role. Every spring for more than 20 years, researchers and forecasters have come together in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed to evaluate and improve […]
Q&A with Researcher Cassandra Shivers-Williams
A Women’s History Month profile Severe weather researchers focus on more than just storms. They also study how people interpret and react to severe weather warnings and communications about severe weather. Cassandra Shivers-Williams studies just that — how the public responds to severe weather information. One specific item she studies is how people’s individual differences […]
Q&A with Researcher Jill Hardy
A Women’s History Month profile Every NOAA National Weather Service forecaster across the nation travels to Norman, Oklahoma, for professional training with the NWS Warning Decision Training Division. Forecasters receive training on all factors, including the stress involved in issuing warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods. Jill Hardy specializes in flash flood warning […]