Flood of 2013 in Boulder, Colorado
A guest editorial from Professor Vijay K. Gupta, an Iowa Flood Center colleague at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
A guest editorial from Professor Vijay K. Gupta, an Iowa Flood Center colleague at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
On a Wednesday afternoon in June, a severe storm outbreak spawned huge thunderstorms across Iowa and western Illinois. NASA’s Polarimetric precipitation radar was in place to scan the storms as they swept through the region.
Kara Prior, an IFC student employee, shares her field experiences during the IFloodS campaign.
Due to severe weather forecasts, the NASA and Iowa Flood Center public outreach event scheduled for Wednesday, June 12 at 7 p.m. in Room 104, Wilder Business Center, on the Northeast Iowa Community College campus has been CANCELLED.
IFC researchers have designed and installed 20 state-of-the-art rain gauges with soil moisture probes in the Turkey River watershed in northeast Iowa, with a few more gauges in the South Fork of the Iowa River watershed (Franklin, Hamilton, and Hardin counties) and the Walnut Creek watershed (Jasper County).
NASA and Iowa Flood Center staff have been busy deploying instrumentation to field locations in the Cedar, Iowa, and Turkey River watersheds in preparation for the campaign.