Dr. Altug Aksoy made a presentation on “An Overview of the Tropical Cyclone Data Assimilation Activities at NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division” at the 7th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop, State College, PA from 23-27 May 2016. Dr. Aksoy’s presentation is available on the ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2016/aksoy_enkf_workshop_may2016.pdf
Dr. Miyamoto presented a seminar on “A transition mechanism for rapid intensification of tropical cyclones”. ABSTRACT: Most of strong tropical cyclones (TCs) experience a rapidly intensifying phase (Rapid Intensification: RI) during their lifetimes. Deep understanding of RI is essentially important for accurate prediction of TC intensity. Recently researchers pay increasing attention to RI and a […]
Prof. Mohanty presented a seminar on “Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Ocean”. A recording of the presentation is available on the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2016/Mohanty_HRD_Seminar_20160607.mp4
June’s science meeting consisted of 4 presentations: Ghassan Alaka: “Demo of the Basin-Scale HWRF Web Site” Elena Konopleva (ESRL/PSD): “Simple flight planning tool based on tkmap” George Halliwell (AOML/PhOD): “OSSE evaluation of pre-storm ocean profile surveys” Leon Nguyen: “Observations of intensifying sheared tropical cyclones: Bertha” All the presentations are available on the anonymous […]
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016, Dr. Robert Rogers led a kick off meeting to discuss our flight experiments and modules that will be part of the 2016 hurricane field campaign. To review the proposed experiments go to the presentation at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2016/HFP2016_kickoff_meeting.ppt.zip
Due to a maintenance issue this afternoon’s G-IV jet flight was cancelled. There are no follow-up flights scheduled.
Dropsondes are instruments released from Hurricane Hunter aircraft that measure temperature, humidity, and wind speed as they fall to the ocean. Since they were first used in 1997, more than 12,000 have been dropped into tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) around the world. All of these observations are studied to find those with the fastest […]
NOAA’s hurricane hunter G-IV jet is scheduled to fly a research mission taking off at 1800 UTC (2:00 PM Eastern) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. The jet will fly around and over Tropical Storm Colin that is located over the Gulf of America. This is the third and final mission into Colin. The data collected from this flight will […]
OPERATIONS Monday, 6 June 2016 G-IV: Flew a “TC in shear” research mission over Colin. Take off was at 0600 UTC (2:00AM) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. No HRD scientists were on this flight. G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a “TC in shear” research mission over Colin. Take off is scheduled for 1800 UTC (2:00PM) from MacDill Air […]
The G-IV jet is scheduled to fly an eight-hour research mission early this morning taking off at 0600 UTC (2:00 AM Eastern) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. The jet will fly around and over Tropical Storm Colin. Below is the proposed G-IV flight track. The dots on the flight track (shown in green) represent the […]
