Neal Dorst discusses hurricane history and the Bob Simpson biography on the Weather Brains podcast
You can listen to the discussion at http://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/?p=4624
Paper on the impact of vertical resolution in the HWRF model on forecasts published in Monthly Weather Review
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00102.1.
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of April 2015
April’s science meeting consisted of 7 presentations: Vijay Tallapragada (EMC): Evaluation of Proposed FY15 Upgrades for NCEP Operational HWRF: NATL/EPAC Storms, 2011-2014 Xuejin Zhang: Development of Atmosphere-Ocean-Land Fully Coupled Basin-scale HWRF System Christina Holt (DTC): Large Scale Verification of HWRF Hua Chen: Numerical Experiments with Hurricane Isaac (2012) Bachir Annane: Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation and […]
Paper on the relationship between eyewall slope and vertical wind shear published in Monthly Weather Review
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00122.1.
Rob Rogers interviewed by Wired about African Easterly Waves and hurricanes
You can access the article at http://www.wired.com/2015/03/see-birth-atlantic-hurricane-look-africa/.
HRD & AOML researchers at 95th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ – 4-8 January 2015
Abstracts and recordings of the 13 presentations and 4 posters AOML & HRD researchers presented (or were co-authors) at the 95th AMS Annual Meeting are available online from the AMS website: Presentations: Improving the Performance of the Basin Scale HWRF System – Javier Delgado, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and T. Quirino, X. […]
AOML Director provides overview of NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project to Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel – 24 March 2015
AOML Director Robert Atlas presented a seminar at Tel Aviv University (TAU) titled “NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project”. The slides from Dr. Atlas’ presentation are available on the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2015/Atlas%20HFIP%20Israel%20talk.ppt
15th Anniversary of Cyclone Hudah
On April 2, 2000, Cyclone Hudah made landfall at Antalaha, Madagascar. It had formed eleven days prior near Christmas Island and had traveled nearly the width of the Southern Indian Ocean passing south of Diego Garcia. As it approached Madagascar it began to intensify, and its winds reached 145 mph (235 km/hr) at landfall. It weakened while […]
AOML Director provides overview of NOAA observing system sensitivity experiments (OSSE) to the Israeli Meteorological Society, Jerusalem, Israel – 23 March 2015
AOML Director Robert Atlas presented a seminar to the Israeli Meteorological Society (IMS) titled “The Application of Observing System Simulation Experiments to Optimize the Global Observing System and Improve Weather Prediction”. The slides from Dr. Atlas’ presentation are available on the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2015/Atlas%20IMS5a%20GIF.pptx
HRD seminar – Paul Kucera, NCAR/RAL/Tropical Cyclone Model Team (TCMT) – 1 April 2015
Dr. Kucera presented a seminar on “Tropical Cyclone Research and Development at TCMT“. A video recording of the presentation is available on the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2015/Kucera_HRD_Seminar_20150401.mp4
