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Molly Baringer

Research Highlights March 29, 2023NOAA Scientists Detect a Reshaping of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Southern OceanNovember 17, 2022Congratulations to the Winners of 2022 Department of Commerce and NOAA Awards!May 6, 2022International Argo Program Wins IEEE Award Research Interests Meso- to large scale ocean circulation associated with the global meridional overturning circulation Molly Baringer, [...]
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Bachir Annane

Bachir Annane, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate III (University of Miami/CIMAS), Hurricane Research Division 305.361.4502 Bachir.Annane@noaa.gov  Bachir_Annane 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, Florida 33149 AboutCurrent Work & CVPublicationsAwardsAbout Dr. Bachir Annane is a Senior Research Associate III with the University of Miami's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and AOML's Hurricane Research Division. Current Work [...]
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Kathryn Sellwood

Research Highlights May 16, 2023A Day in the Life of a NOAA Hurricane HunterNovember 30, 2021AOML Scientists Play Critical Role in Success of NOAA’s Hurricane Field ProgramMarch 13, 2019AOML Celebrates First All-Female P-3 Science Team Research Interests Collection, evaluation, and assimilation of observations obtained using NOAA aircraft and remote sensing platforms in the inner core [...]
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Michael Fischer

Research Highlights October 21, 2022Investigating vertical wind shear influences on tropical cyclone intensity change Research Interests Environmental and convective influences on tropical cyclone structure and intensity change, with an emphasis on processes favoring tropical cyclone rapid intensification. Michael Fischer, Ph.D. Assistant Scientist (University of Miami/CIMAS), Hurricane Research Division  305.361.4337     Michael.Fischer@noaa.gov 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, [...]
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Neal Dorst

Research Interests Data management. History of hurricane research. Hurricane climatology. Neal Dorst Meteorologist, Hurricane Research Division 305.361.4311 neal.m.dorst@noaa.gov 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, Florida 33149 “As a child, I’d always been fascinated by storms.  When my family moved to south Florida in 1965, I went through Hurricane Betsy.  It seems inevitable that I would get a [...]
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Paul Reasor

Research Highlights November 17, 2022Congratulations to the Winners of 2022 Department of Commerce and NOAA Awards! Research Interests Dynamical processes involved in tropical cyclone vortex organization from the incipient stage to hurricane formation, particularly in environments where vertical wind shear is a significant dynamical forcing of the fluid system.  Developing new ways of collecting and [...]
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Xuejin Zhang

Research Interests Numerical model development and application. Xuejin Zhang, Ph.D. Meteorologist, Hurricane Research Division 305.361.4558  Xuejin.Zhang@noaa.gov 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, Florida 33149 AboutCurrent Work & CVEducationPublicationsAwardsAbout Dr. Xuejin Zhang is a Meteorologist employed in NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory’s Hurricane Research Division. He studies tropical cyclone forecast and simulation, land-air-sea interaction, regional climate, data [...]
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HRD Staff

Hurricane Research Division Staff Directory Administration Ghassan Alaka, Ph.D., Director Jennifer Calderon-Diaz, Divisional Liaison Administration Shirley Murillo, Acting Director Aaron Poyer, Acting Deputy Director Jennifer Calderon-Diaz, Divisional Liaison Frank Marks, Sc.D., in staged retirement Model Team Sundararaman (Gopal) Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D. [Team Lead] Ghassan (Gus) Alaka, Ph.D. Kwun Yip (Samuel) Fung, Ph.D. Lewis (Lew) Gramer, Ph.D. [...]
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Sim Aberson

Research Highlights November 30, 2021AOML Scientists Play Critical Role in Success of NOAA’s Hurricane Field ProgramSeptember 1, 2017Upper Air Observations: How Weather Balloons Improve Forecasts Research Interests Optimizing the assimilation of observations into high-resolution analysis and numerical models. Dropwindsondes and their use in research and operations.  Observing system experiments to test the impact of observations [...]
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