Abstracts and recordings of the 6 presentations and 5 posters AOML & HRD researchers presented (or were co-authors) at the 94th AMS Annual Meeting are available online from the AMS website: Presentations: Status on reaching the Goals of the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Toepfer, F. Marks, […]
The HFIP Annual Review Meeting was held in College Park, MD, from 19-20 February, 2014. The agenda and background information are available at http://www.hfip.org/events/review_meeting_feb_14/index.php.
The full article can be viewed at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/26/offshore-wind-farms-tame-hurricanes/5813425/
NOAA 42 on tarmac in Townsville (photo by Robert Brook) On February 20, 1979, a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft, NOAA42, landed in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, as part of a scientific and public outreach tour. The aircraft and crew were on a return leg from participating in the First GARP* Global Experiment in the southern Indian […]
February’s Science meeting had 6 presentations: Robert Black, HRD – Microphysics influences in HWRF Dr. Jun Zhang, UM/CIMAS & HRD – Using aircraft observations to improve HWRF physics Dr. Joe Cione, HRD – Difference in air-sea energy transfer in weakening and intensifying in storms Prof. Hugh Willoughby, FIU – Hurricanes in Zipfistan Dr. Hua Chen, […]
HRD’s new website is now online. Click on the image above or here to see it.
Today is National Weatherperson’s Day, a day to recognize the men and women who collectively provide us with weather and climate forecasts and warnings. It is easy to forget that around the clock, dedicated meteorologists who vigilantly create forecasts to help plan your day and issue warnings to help keep you safe. John Jeffries 1744-1819 […]
Cyclone Geralda on Jan. 31, 1994 approaching Madagascar on the left (NOAA) On February 2, 1994, the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Madagascar since 1927 made landfall. Its 110 mph (175 kph) winds left 231 people dead and over $10 million in damage. The storm struck just weeks after another tropical cyclone, Daisy, hit the […]
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00186.1.
The full text can be found at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00076.1.
