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 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. ...

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

Nov 17, 2016

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 17, 2016) — 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...

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. ...

UAH seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes

UAH 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 – until it hits the far edge. ...

Aerosol Chemistry Shanhu Lee

New UAH lab seeks answers to particle, cloud mysteries

Oct 06, 2016

A new laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is setting out to solve some of the fundamental mysteries about one of the common compounds floating in the atmosphere and what effects (if any) that compound has on climate change. ...

Hugh Christian

Cross-eyed instrument to help UAH test GLM, study lightning

Oct 06, 2016

Designed to test and validate a lightning sensor set for launch into geostationary orbit in November, a set of sensor "eyes" is nearing completion in labs at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. ...