June 1st marks the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. Are you prepared? This week is National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Learn about hurricane hazards and how you can prepare and protect your home or business in the event of a threat.
Thanks to the scholarship of Mike Chenowith and C. J. Mock, a Civil War-era hurricane, the only May hurricane to make US landfall, has been re-discovered. It came ashore on Florida’s panhandle 150 years ago on May 28th and caused considerable damage to several Union ships on blockade duty, including the USS Amanda. The researchers […]
AOML hosted 425 students and teachers on Friday and welcomed 275 visitors on Saturday during our Open House. Staff from Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s and Senator Marco Rubio’s offices each spent an hour touring our displays. The feedback from visitors was extremely positive, and many students and teachers who attended on Friday brought their family and […]
The key to improved intensification forecasting is a better understanding of what hurricanes do when they undergo this [rapid intensification]. “It’s like the common cold,” Marks said. “We know the symptoms, but not the cause.” The full article can be found at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130523-2013-hurricane-forecast-noaa-sandy-prediction-weather-science/
We are opening our doors to the public along with the Southeast Fisheries Science Center for an Open House on Saturday, May 25th! Come out to see and learn about our cutting edge research efforts to explore the oceans, marine life, coral reefs, and hurricanes. Here’s your chance to speak directly with the scientists who are carrying out these studies and […]
“In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year. For the six-month hurricane season, which begins June 1, NOAA’s Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook says there is a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 7 to 11 could […]
HRD scientist Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan has been named to the Science Advisory Board of the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC). DTC is facilitates the testing and evaluation of new models and techniques in numerical weather prediction (NWP). It serves as a bridge between research and operations to facilitate the activities of both parts of the NWP Community. The […]
The presentation from May’s Modeling meeting is available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov:21//hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2013/modeling/20130516.zip
Xuejin Zhang, a CIMAS affiliate, has been selected as NOAA Research Team Member of the Month for May 2013. He was honored for his role in developing the HWRF (Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting) model. The award is in recognition and appreciation of a NOAA team member who has made significant contributions to the agency, and […]
Dr. Zhang presented a seminar at the National Hurricane Center on “Hurricane sea-surface inflow angle from GPS dropsonde composites and an observation-based parametric model”. Abstract: This talk presents an analysis of near-surface (10-m) inflow angles using wind vector data from over 1600 quality-controlled Global Positioning System dropwindsondes deployed by aircraft on 187 flights into 18 hurricanes. Composite analysis results indicate […]
