As Tropical Storm Kate was developing east of Grand Bahama a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. The figure below depicts the P-3 flight track superposed on a lower fuselage radar image. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 180 km of Kate […]
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Although the 2015 hurricane season ending on Nov. 30th was by most measures a ‘quiet’ one, NOAA’s annual Hurricane Field Program, led by AOML‘s Hurricane Research Division entailed plenty of activity and produced several milestones. HRD scientists participated in 30 research, reconnaissance and surveillance flights, either on-board the NOAA aircraft or remotely from the ground. In […]
Ms. Munsell presented a seminar “Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclones evaluated through convection-permitting ensemble analysis and forecasts with airborne radar and sounding observations“. Abstract: Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclones evaluated through convection-permitting ensemble analysis and forecasts with airborne radar and sounding observations. The dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclones (TCs) are assessed through the […]
November’s science meeting consisted of 3 presentations: Lisa Bucci – Initial Assessment of the P3 Doppler Wind Lidar Impacts Javier Delgado – Quasi-basin-scale, 3-km HWRF-B Simulations Sim Aberson – An Extremely Extreme Event in Hurricane Patricia All the presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2015/science/HRD_SciMeet_20151112.zip
Mr. Gao presented a seminar “Vortex Rossby wave propagation and wave-mean-flow interaction in 3D baroclinic TC-like vortices”. Abstract: Vortex Rossby wave propagation (VRW) and wave-mean-flow interaction in 3D baroclinic TC-like vortices are investigated using both theoretical analyses and numerical simulations by WRF. Based on the asymmetric balance (AB) model, the dispersion relation, group velocities, and […]
Dr. Fiorino presented a seminar “Deterministic Tropical Cyclone Genesis in a Suite of Operational Global Models. Part II: Verification and Spurious model TCs“. Abstract: In Part I of this paper, presented at NHC two days ago, we describe a data set of developing/non-developing tropical disturbances (‘pTCs’ for pre/potential TCs), and how this data set is […]
On November 12, 1970, the deadliest tropical cyclone on record hit northeastern India and what was then East Pakistan. The storm surge washed over many barrier islands and the flat shoreline of the Bay of Bengal killing approximately half of a million people. The storm originated from a tropical depression that formed in the southern […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft is ready to fly again. The P-3 will fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) operational mission into Tropical Storm Kate. It will depart at 2:00PM local time from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL and fly a seven hour mission. This flight is operationally tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). This means that EMC has […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 10 November 2015 NOAA43: Flew an EMC operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Kate. This means that NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) is interested in collecting data and has requested this flight. Take off was at 0700 UTC (2AM Eastern) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. No HRD scientists were on this flight. NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly another […]
