UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research

UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research

Mar 21, 2017

Bad weather in March, April and early May will bring a virtual cloud of weather balloons to North Alabama, as scientists from around the U.S. gather to study the challenges of predicting which storms spin up tornadoes across the Southeastern states...

Mike Bettes takes a break with Charger Blue during 2014 Weather Channel coverage on campus.

The Weather Channel鈥檚 Mike Bettes to keynote Weather Fest on Saturday

Feb 20, 2017

Mike Bettes, on-camera meteorologist and lead tornado tracker for The Weather Channel, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Rocket City Weather Fest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 萝莉岛app (UAH) ...

Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition

Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition

Feb 15, 2017

In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Dr. Hugh Christian planned all along to send the flight spare into space. ...

Corey Amiot has focused on improving lead times for warnings of high wind events.

Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities

Feb 09, 2017

Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (and the people who work on them) may soon be a little bit safer, thanks to research in the Atmospheric Science Departmen...

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Nov 17, 2016

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 17, 2016) 鈥� Mid-December is going to be a busy time for UAH Earth system science major Allison Daniel. Right after graduation on Sunday, Dec. 11, she has to hop on a flight to San Francisco to attend the winter meeting...

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Nov 22, 2016

Mid-December is going to be a busy time for University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth system science major Allison Daniel. ...

GLM launch will cap 36 years from idea to flight for UAH researcher

GLM launch will cap 36 years from idea to flight for UAH researcher

Nov 18, 2016

Dr. Hugh Christian is getting ready to watch 36 years of work rocket into space as science awaits the opportunity to better monitor the intensity and progress of storms to save lives and property on Earth. ...

Students compete in 7th poster contest at Von Braun Memorial Symposium

Students compete in 7th poster contest at Von Braun Memorial Symposium

Nov 02, 2016

For the seventh consecutive year, graduate and undergraduate students presented their research to compete for prizes at a student poster competition during the ninth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium at UAH Oct. 25-27. ...

Griffin helps others find path through weather, climate data

Griffin helps others find path through weather, climate data

Oct 25, 2016

The concept of information overload isn't a new one. The Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "distringit librorum multitudo" (the abundance of books is distraction) in the first century A.D. ...

萝莉岛app seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes

萝莉岛app seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes

Oct 20, 2016

Squeezed upward over the big toe of the Cumberland foothills, wind flowing north in front of a storm system accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama 鈥� until it hits the far edge. ...