In the July 20, 2001, issue of Science magazine, HRD scientists Stan Goldenberg and Chris Landsea, AOML oceanographer Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez, and Colorado State professor Bill Gray published the article “The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications”. The cover article examined the upsurge in Atlantic hurricane activity starting in 1995 and related […]
You can read the article at http://patch.com/us/across-america/saharan-dust-cloud-descends-texas-gulf-coast.
July’s science meeting consisted of 5 presentations: Joaquin Trinanes (AOML/PhOD) – “CoastWatch and PhOD satellite and ocean products in support of HRD 2016 hurricane season activities” Erin Dougherty (SUNY- Albany, HRD visitor) – “Hurricane Bonnie (1998): Maintaining Intensity during High Vertical Wind Shear and an Eyewall Replacement Cycle” Evan Forde (AOML/CNSD) – “An Update on […]
Read the article at https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/saharan-air-layer-african-dust-atlantic-basin.
Neal Dorst is quoted in this USA Today article on the recent small number of hurricane landfalls in the United States.
On July 13, 2006, Severe Tropical Storm Bilis made landfall in northern Taiwan. Although the maximum sustained winds were only 65 mph (105 km/hr), it brought heavy rains to the island and to northern Luzon. It went on to make landfall on mainland China the next day and inundated parts of Fujian province. The total […]
On July 12, 1996, Hurricane Bertha roared ashore at Wrightsville Beach, NC, smashing piers and boats. The storm had already left a trail of destruction across the northern Caribbean islands and subsequently brought heavy rainfall along the Eastern Seaboard. Bertha grew out of an African Easterly Wave that became a tropical depression on July 5th […]
Dr. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan presented a seminar to the Delhi Chapter of the India Meteorological Society entitled “Advances and Challenges in Tropical Cyclone Track, Structure and Intensity Predictions”. Dr. Gopalakrishnan was in New Delhi visiting the India Meteorological Department, India Ministry of Earth Science, and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum to further HRD and NOAA […]
Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX) Program Director Robert Rogers, Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) researcher Lisa Bucci, and HRD Director Frank Marks briefed the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) personnel on IFEX plans for 2016, this year’s plan for the DWL, and Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project progress, respectively. The three presentations are available in a .zip archive on […]
Read the article at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/keynotes/keynotes_0716_HurrFieldCampaign.html.
