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HRD Scientists participate in NOAA Hurricane Conference, 29 November-2 December 2011

HRD Scientists Shirley Murillo, Xuejin Zhang, Stan Goldenberg, Sim Aberson, and Frank Marks presented summaries of 2011 accomplishments from the annual NOAA hurricane field program (IFEX), regional hurricane model developments (HWRFV3.2), hurricane data assimilation developments with HEDAS, the Joint Hurricane Testbed activities, and a preliminary look at the Hurricane Irene Service Assessment. Their presentations are […]

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HRD seminar – George Bryan, NCAR – 15 November 2011

George Bryan gave a seminar on “How to make simulated hurricanes look like observed hurricanes”  Abstract: Among the many uncertainties in numerical and theoretical models of hurricanes, perhaps the greatest uncertainty lies in the parameterizations of boundary-layer turbulence and air-sea exchange.  In an attempt to reduce this uncertainty, I have conducted a very large set of idealized simulations of […]

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Pre-HFIP workshop in celebration of HRD Director Frank Marks’ 60th birthday

A Pre-HFIP workshop was held at the University of Miami, Rosentstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Auditorium on 7 November 2011. The agenda for the workshop with the # and Presenter listed was: 8:45-9:00 Opening remarks (conveners: Fuqing Zhang, PSU & Robert Rogers, HRD) 9:00-9:45   (1) Radar observations of TC structure (Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR) 9:45-10:30 (2) Modeling […]

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