NOAA news release about the end of the 2022 hurricane season
“This season, NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft flew over 582 mission hours to collect atmospheric data that is critical to hurricane forecasting and research, passing through the eye of a hurricane 65 times and deploying over 1,700 scientific instruments. NOAA’s Gulfstream IV-SP also flew a research mission from Cabo Verde, Africa, in August. This historic mission […]
AOML Coral Program demonstrate the importance of teamwork, tackling coral conservation from various angles
Coral researchers from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the University of Miami Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Science (CIMAS) recently organized into three teams and ventured into the field to tackle a multitude of research projects relating to sensitive coral ecosystems in Miami and the Florida Keys. The first project, led […]
Paper on the impact of ocean surface waves in intensity forecasts published in The Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Ocean surface waves affect the exchange of momentum and energy between the ocean and the atmosphere. However, the impact on tropical cyclone intensity and structure in fully coupled numerical models has not been well-understood. This study used a regional atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled model to study the wave impacts. Simulations of 21 real tropical cyclones were conducted. […]
Recap of Julia and Lisa flights
NOAA conducted two flights into Julia and five into Lisa during October of this year, all in the Caribbean Sea. The main purpose of all the missions was to gather Doppler Radar and dropwindsonde data for ingestion into NOAA’s computer models to improve forecasts. Flight tracks of missions into Julia (left) and Lisa (right) during […]
HRD scientists attend Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program Annual Meeting
Last week, researchers from HRD attended the 2022 Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida. The primary objective of this meeting was to discuss key HFIP strategies including advances to NOAA’s next-generation Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) model. The current state of operational hurricane capabilities and challenges as well as the results and […]
Hurricane and Ocean Testbed Technical Workshop
During recently flights into Hurricane Lisa, researchers from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), National Hurricane Center (NHC), Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) participated in a technical workshop, or “hack-a-thon,” in the new Hurricane and Ocean Testbed. The goal of the exercise was to accelerate the integration […]
Recap of Hurricane Ian flights
In September, NOAA conducted 15 missions in and around Hurricane Ian before its historic landfall in Florida. Among these were 8 P-3 missions and 7 synoptic surveillance missions conducted by the G-IV. One hundred forty-three dropwindsondes were released along with 18 Airborne Expendable Bathythermographs to measure profiles in the atmosphere and the ocean underneath Ian. […]
Genetic variants of the coral Acropora cervicornis linked to elevated nutrient and heat stress resistance
A recent study by scientists at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science, the Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) identified genetic variants in staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, that can tolerate elevated temperatures and nutrient pollution, two environmental stressors that […]
Investigating vertical wind shear influences on tropical cyclone intensity change
Scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute of Marine & Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) examine the challenges of accurately predicting when a tropical cyclone will begin a quick and sudden increase in intensity (called rapid intensification or RI) in a new study published in Monthly Weather Review. The paper analyzes a group (ensemble) of computer model […]
