HRD Monthly Modeling Meeting of February 2013
The 2 presentations from February’s Modeling meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2013/modeling/20130221.zip
Paper on the impact of diffusion on HWRF forecasts published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
This paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0340.1
10th anniversary of publication of seminal work on wind profiles in the tropical cyclone eyewall from dropwindsondes
GPS Dropwindsonde Wind Profiles in Hurricanes and Their Operational Implications by James Franklin, Michael Black and Krystal Valde of HRD was published in the February 2003 issue of Weather and Forecasting. They documented, for the first time, broad wind-speed maxima about 500 m above the surface, and the decrease of wind speed from this maximum […]
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of February 2013
The 2 presentations from February’s Monthly Science meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2013/science/HRD_SciMeet_20130214.zip
Paper on testbeds, including the Joint Hurricane Testbed, published in The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
The paper can be found at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00080
Paper on storm-relative assimilation of Airborne Doppler Radar Data using HEDAS published in Monthly Weather Review
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00094.1
Congratulations to HRD scientists for winning the 2012 NOAA Research Employee of the Year Award (Group award)
The HRD-HWRF Model Development Team was the recipient of the 2012 NOAA Research Employee of the Year Award which recognizes NOAA Research employees who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of excellence in the operations or programs of NOAA Research. The team members (Dr. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan (team lead), Dr. Thiago Quirino, Stanley Goldenberg, Robert […]
HRD Monthly Modeling Meeting of January 2013
The 2 presentations from January’s Modeling meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2013/modeling/20130117.zip
Paper on the thermodynamics of the inflow layer of tropical cyclones in vertical shear published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
The paper can be accessed at http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/327/2013/acp-13-327-2013.pdf.
2013 Hurricane-related Anniversaries
2013 Hurricane Related Anniversaries 2008 5th anniversary The THORPEX Pacific-Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC), an international, multi-agency scientific experiment, is conducted in the western Pacific. Typhoons are investigated by aircraft reconnaissance along with other concentrated monitoring. Very Severe Cyclone Nargis hits Burma causing $10 billion in damage and causing nearly 140,000 deaths. Typhoon Fengshen ravages the […]
