OPERATIONS Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 NOAA42: Is tasked for a mission into Hurricane Sandy. The flight will take off around 2000 UTC from MacDill Air Force Base. NOAA42 is flying a P-3 TDR mission. Two HRD scientists will be on this flight. G-IV: No missions are scheduled. Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 NOAA42: Is tasked for a mission into Hurricane […]
Yesterday’s presentation “They Called the Wind Mahina: The History of Naming Cyclones” is available as a PowerPoint presentation at ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/dorst/Mahina.pptx The talk covers the history of putting names on hurricanes from the 16th Century with a specific emphasis on Clement Wragge and how our current system of names is tied to his efforts.
The 2 presentations from October’s Modeling meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2012/modeling/20121018.zip
The 4 presentations from October’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_20121018.zip
As Hurricane Rafael moved northward toward Bermuda (denoted by black line in upper left of image) NOAA P-3 missions collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within the inner core of Rafael sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the […]
As Hurricane Rafael moved northward toward Bermuda NOAA P-3 missions collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within the inner core of Rafael sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 late on 15 October 2012. These images are […]
H*Wind analysis for Hurricane Rafael are available here. Check the link for our most recent analysis.
Dr. Robert Rogers spoke at OAR‘s Senior Research Council meeting on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. This meeting was hosted at AOML. His talk entitled “Advancing NOAA’s Hurricane Mission with HRD Science” included highlights of the research conducted at HRD. A copy of his presentation is available here:
HRD Director and lead for the NOAA Service Assessment for Hurricane Irene Dr. Frank Marks gave a presentation on “NOAA Service Assessment: Hurricane Irene, 21-29 August 2011”. A copy of his presentation is available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2012/Irene_SA_20120731.pptx The full Irene Service Assessment is available online here.
The 3 presentations from September’s data assimlation meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2012/DA/20120927.zip
