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HRD seminar – S. J. Lin and Lucas Harris (NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)) – 10 June 2015

Drs. Lin and Harris provided an overview of GFDL’s unified weather-climate modeling system with two-way regional-global nesting capability. Abstract: We are taking a “seamless” approach in the development of the next generation weather-climate model at GFDL. All the requirements for short-term numerical weather predictions and century long climate change projections are taken into consideration. In […]

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of June 2015

June’s science meeting consisted of 3 presentations: Joshua Wadler (Hollings scholar from U. Oklahoma) – Convective Bursts: How their structure and environments vary in shear relative quadrants Kurt Hansen (Hollings scholar from SUNY Albany) – Downdrafts in Tropical Cyclones Jun Zhang – Effects of Vertical Diffusion on Forecasts of Rapid Intensifying Storms in HWRF – […]

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70th Anniversary of Typhoon Connie

On June 5 1945, Typhoon Connie swept over the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet southeast of Okinawa.  The fleet had been supporting the invasion of Okinawa when the Fleet Weather Center on Guam notified them of the existence of the storm to their south.  Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, who ran afoul of another typhoon just six […]

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HRD scientists “Feel the Force” at the Miami Museum of Science

On Saturday, May 30th, AOML personnel participated in the Patricia and Philip Frost Miami Science Museum’s annual “Feel the Force” outreach program.  The one-day event drew over 1000 people who learned about preparing their homes and families to deal with disasters, especially hurricanes.  HRD scientists staffed the exhibit dedicated to explaining how scientists fly into […]

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Frank Marks discusses what it is like to fly into the eye of a hurricane at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science – 28 May 2015

HRD Director Frank Marks gave a presentation “Inside the Eye of the Storm” as part of the Science Up Close Series at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science on Thursday, May 28th. ABSTRACT Advances in the study and forecasting of hurricanes came about through scientific and technological improvements in our ability to observe […]

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