February’s science meeting consisted of 2 presentations: Jun Zhang – Impact of boundary-layer vertical diffusion on HWRF forecasts of tropical cyclone rapid intensification Hui Christophersen – On the impact of NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft dropwindsondes on tropical cyclone track, intensity and structure: Case studies All the presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: […]
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Ms. Stevenson presented a seminar on the “Lightning Observations in Atlantic and East Pacific TCs”. Abstract: Global lightning detection has become more reliable in the past decade, allowing for comprehensive observational studies on lightning activity in TCs over the open oceans. This seminar will highlight interesting results from analyses of TCs in the Atlantic and […]
Dr. Goodman presented a seminar on the “The GOES-R Geostationary Satellite System and User Readiness”. ABSTRACT: NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been a mainstay of weather forecasts and environmental monitoring in the United States for the past 40 years. The next generation of GOES satellites, known as the GOES-R Series, is scheduled for […]
The paper can be accessed at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066436/full.
The article can be found at https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/raytheon-provides-coyote-uas-noaa/.
Prof. Thorncroft presented a seminar on the “Variability of African easterly waves and their relationship with downstream tropical cyclogenesis”. A copy of the presentation is available on the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2016/Thorncroft_HRD_Seminar_20160121.pptx
This paper is about weather research conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the India Meteorological Department and universities in India and the USA. Very severe cyclonic storm ‘Phailin’ in 2013 was the strongest cyclone to hit the eastern coast of India-Odisha state since the super cyclone of 1999. But there were far […]
