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HRD scientist provides NOAA hurricane modeling research overview to the India Meteorological Society, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India – 18 December 2014

Dr. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan visited the India Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (IIT-B) to discuss collaborations under the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum network proposal between HRD and IIT-B. While there, Dr. Gopalakrishnan presented a seminar to the Bhubaneswar Chapter of the India Meteorological Society entitled “Advances in Numerical Modeling for prediction of Tropical Cyclones”. The presentations are […]

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HRD scientist provides NOAA hurricane research overview to the Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China – 11-12 December 2014

Dr. Robert Rogers visited the Shanghai Typhoon Institute (STI) to discuss means to strengthening the interaction between STI and HRD under an Implementing Agreement under the Memorandum of Understanding between NOAA and Chinese Meteorological Agency initiated a year ago. HRD and STI are the only two laboratories in the world devoted specifically to researching tropical […]

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HRD scientists participate in IWTC-8 and IWTCLP-3, Jeju, Republic of Korea – 2-10 December 2014

Drs. Robert Rogers and Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan represented HRD at the Eighth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-8, Dec. 1-6) and the Third International Workshop on Tropical Cyclone Landfall Processes (IWTCLP-3, Dec. 8-10) sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).  Dr. Rogers serves as the lead of the Working Group on Tropical Cyclone Landfall Processes. The […]

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HRD seminar – Lidia Cucurull, ESRL/GSD – 16 December 2014

Dr. Cucurull presented a seminar on “An overview of the Radio Occultation Technology and its impact in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction”. ABSTRACT: During the talk, a review of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) technology and its impact in global NWP will be presented. Furthermore, current activities within the Global Observing Systems Analysis (GOSA) […]

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40th Anniversary of Cyclone Tracy

On December 25, 1974, Darwin, Australia received an unwelcome night visitor.  Not Father Christmas, but Cyclone Tracy, a small but intense tropical cyclone, struck the city at 3:30 AM local time.  The storm had been forecast to pass west of the city, but overnight Tracy made a tight turn to the southeast to ravage the […]

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Bob Simpson passes away at 102

It is with a heavy heart that we note the death of HRD’s founding director, Dr. Robert H. Simpson at the age of 102. Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, Bob Simpson survived the 1919 hurricane that struck his hometown when he was just 6 years old. After receiving a Master’s degree in Physics […]

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2014

December’s Science meeting had 2 presentations: Paul Reasor:  The Radar Re-analysis Project: Overview and Status Joe Cione: The relative roles of the ocean and atmosphere as revealed by buoy air-sea observations in hurricanes The presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2014/science/HRD_SciMeet_20141211.zip

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HRD seminar – Amitabh Nag and Ryan Said, Vaisala, Boulder, CO– 8 December 2014

Dr. Nag presented a seminar on “Performance Characteristics of Lightning Locating Systems with Focus on U.S. NLDN”. ABSTRACT: Ground-based or satellite-based lightning locating systems are the most common way to geolocate lightning. Depending upon the frequency range of operation, such systems can also report a variety of characteristics associated with lightning events (channel formation processes, […]

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