On Sept. 1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, LA. Prior to this the hurricane had made landfalls in Haiti, Jamaica, the Caymans, and Cuba, leaving a trail of destruction throughout the Greater Antilles. This rampage left over $6.5 billion in damage and 153 dead. Beginning on Aug. 28th, HRD flew a series of […]
The paper can be found at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00211.1
The paper can be accessed here.
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00357.1
Credit: American Red Cross Mid-August of 1893 was extremely busy for the Atlantic basin. For several days there were four hurricanes occurring simultaneously around the Basin, three of them being major. On the evening of Aug. 27th, the sixth hurricane of that year, known as the Great Sea Island hurricane, struck the Georgia coast near Savannah. […]
Tropical Storm Fernand made landfall north northwest of Veracruz Mexico. We generated surface wind analysis contour plots (H*Wind analysis). Take a look: http://1.usa.gov/17eFCPB
NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) field program is currently flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft to sample an enormous Saharan dust storm emerging from the coast of Africa and a weak tropical disturbance to its south. These periodic dust storms, known as Saharan Air Layer (SAL) outbreaks contain extremely dry air and strong […]
The uncrewed NASA Global Hawk (GH) aircraft took off this morning for a 26-hour mission to study the Saharan Air Layer (dust from Africa) in the far eastern tropical Atlantic. There is currently a tropical wave located in the region that the GH will sample, and data collected from this flight will help researchers and […]
Jeff presented a seminar on “Uncertainty in forward microwave satellite radiance calculations and what to do about them”. Abstract: Forward simulations of cloudy satellite radiances are fraught with uncertainty. The scattering parameters that determine satellite brightness temperatures critically depend on complex, unknown size and shape distributions of liquid and solid hydrometeors. These uncertainties can lead to differences of 50 K […]
Last month, several HRDers participated in Aviation Water Safety Training with participants from other agencies that fly on NOAA aircraft. This hands- on training is required every 5 years in order to participate in NOAA aircraft missions such as those from the Hurricane Field Program. The two-day classroom and pool course, taught by Federal Aviation […]
