Paper on the use of the Synthetic Aperture Radar to study occluded fronts published in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
The manuscript can be accessed here.
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of July 2015
July’s science meeting consisted of 7 presentations: Hugh Willoughby (FIU) – Synthesis of Vortex Rossby Waves Lisa Bucci – Aircraft Simulation Study Jon Zawislak (FIU) – Evolution of the Thermodynamic Structure During Intensification of Hurricane Edouard (2014) Evan Kalina – Sensitivity of dropsonde temperature and moisture analyses to the averaging time scale Joshua Wadler (Hollings scholar […]
HRD mourns retired hurricane hunter pilot Dave Turner
David Lindsay Turner, 91, passed away 26 June in Jacksonville, FL. Dave flew into hurricanes with the U. S. Navy’s VW-4 Hurricane Hunter Squadron. After leaving the Navy in 1969, Dave joined NOAA in Miami as a civilian hurricane pilot , and flew until his retirement in 1993. He holds the record for the most […]
HRD welcomes summer student interns
Continuing our long tradition of working with students, HRD is hosting three interns this summer. From left to right: Joshua Wadler is a NOAA Hollings Scholar working with Rob Rogers. His project is examining how the region around strong convective bursts varies in different regions of the hurricane, and whether they are different in intensifying and […]
Paper on the statistical prediction of hurricane rapid intensification published in Weather and Forecasting
Summary: The paper describes new models to forecast the probability of when tropical cyclones may strengthen rapidly during the next 48 h when the National Hurricane Center issues watches and warnings to the public. The models are expected to be run during the latter portion of the 2015 Hurricane season. Important Conclusions: The new models […]
Paper on improvements to the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast Model published in Weather and Forecasting
Summary: This paper describes improvements that were made to the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (HWRF). The key change for the 2012 version was a large increase in the number of points used to define a hurricane in the model. HWRF thus became the first model used by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) that […]
10th Anniversary of Hurricane Dennis
On July 8, 2005, Hurricane Dennis became one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded in July. It formed into a tropical depression on July 4th and struck the island of Grenada in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It moved quickly northwestward while it strengthened. It became a hurricane on July 6th while south of the […]
Joe Cione talks to the Tampa Tribune about the Coyote
The article can be found at http://tbo.com/weather/hurricane-planes-get-overhaul-as-noaa-eyes-next-generation-20150628/.
Paul Reasor and Joe Cione talk to Government Computing News about the Coyote
You can read the entire article at http://gcn.com/articles/2015/06/18/noaa-hurricane-drones.aspx.
HRD seminar – Prof. U.C. Mohanty, India Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India – 16 June 2015
Prof. Mohanty presented a seminar on “Prediction of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using 2013 version of HWRF system”. Abstract More than 80-90% of the deaths due to Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are caused by fresh water flooding and storm surge; and hence realistic TC intensity, size and structure predictions are important at landfall for disaster management. The 2013 […]
