Devastating and Historic Flooding Slams the Midwest after "Bomb Cyclone" by Brett Borchardt, Newsletter Assistant Editor EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an article from our NWA April Newsletter. To receive our latest exclusive articles, join the NWA. [caption id="attachment_8989" align="alignnone" width="1069"] Damage to Spencer Dam and extensive river debris in northern Nebraska as tweeted by Nebraska…
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JOM: Development and Evaluation of the GLM Stoplight Product for Lightning Safety
The launch of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) aboard Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R/S (GOES-16/17), provides new opportunities to support lightning safety, such as the 30-min hazard (“stoplight”) safety product developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center. This product plots the spatial extent where lightning occurred over the past…
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