Typhoon Ophelia cuts a swath of destruction across Jaluit Atoll, Ponape, Truk, and Yap and finally, on January 15, 1958, brings down an Air Force WB-50 reconnaissance plane, claiming the lives of all ten crewmen. Aircraft Commander- Captain Albert J Lauer Pilot- Captain Clyde W Tefertiller Weathar Observer- Captain Marcus G Miller Navigator- First Lieutenant […]
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The 4 presentations from January’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_20130110.zip The presentations in order: 1 – Sim Aberson – Integrated Kinetic Energy from wind-radii 2 – Chris Landsea – The Atlantic Hurricane Database Reanalysis for 1936 to 1940 3 – Jun Zhang – Diagnostics […]
A workshop on High-Resolution Regional Modeling for Tropical Cyclones was hosted by the Shanghai Typhoon Institute (STI) of China Meteorological Administration (CMA) at the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (SMB), 20-21 December 2012. Four invited NOAA scientists, Drs. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan and Xuejin Zhang of HRD, plus Dr. Vijay Tallapragada from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), and Dr. […]
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0144.1
The HFIP Annual Review Meeting was held in a series of six weekly telecoms held on Wednesday from 7 November to 19 December. The agenda and presentations are available at: http://www.hfip.org/documents/presentations_publications.php
The 4 presentations from December’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/2012/science/HRD_SciMeet_20121213.zip
Thursday 06 December, on The Weather Channel, during their 5 PM and 7 PM “Weather Channel Live” program, there will be a story on Dr. Bob Simpson, founder of the Hurricane Research Division, and Father of Hurricane Research. Above, Ric Anthes and Dr. Simpson at the Simpson centenary celebration.
Howie Friedman and Russell St. Fleur were recognized for their contributions to the South Florida Federal Executive Board (FEB) and south Florida federal community in September at the FEB’s quarterly meeting. Howie was presented with a plaque for his dedication and service as the FEB’s treasurer during fiscal year 2012. He was also re-elected as […]
Dr. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan made an invited presentation about tropical cyclones at the NOAA Science Day event on September 12th. He emphasized the critical use of observations obtained from NOAA’s aircraft in improving hurricane forecasts. On September 13th, he briefed members of the House Committee on Science, the Senate Committee on Commerce, and staff from various offices […]
