The National Tropical Weather Conference was held on South Padre Island 6-9 April. Alex Garcia, a television meteorologist with San Antonio’s KABB-TV, is one of the founders of the conference. “The idea for the National Tropical Weather Conference came about when the Bahamas Weather Conference ended,” Garcia said. “There was no organized effort to educate […]
April’s science meeting consisted of two presentations: Sim Aberson: The polygonal eyewall of Hurricane Fabian Robert Rogers: Characteristics of Aligning Weak Tropical Cyclones Copies of the presentations are available here.
March’s science meeting consisted of four presentations by students of our collaborator Prof. Haiyan Zhang at Florida International University: Xinxi Wang: Relating Tropical Cyclone Intensification Rate and Inner-Core Features Using 16-yr TMI data Adrian Lopez: Defining Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Using Bootstrapping Extreme Threshold Estimation Oscar Guzman: Climatology of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Magnitude at Different […]
Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate student scientists recently gathered at Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee for the 10th Biennial National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Educational Partnership Program with Minority-Serving Institutions (EPP/MSI) Education and Science Forum. The EPP/MSI Program is NOAA’s largest investment in post-secondary education and future workforce development with thousands of students […]
Autonomous underwater gliders and uncrewed surface vehicles such as saildrones are revolutionizing both our understanding of and ability to forecast hurricane track and intensity. These observing systems are becoming critical components of operational forecasting systems in the United States. Read the article at https://tos.org/oceanography/article/uncrewed-ocean-gliders-and-saildrones-support-hurricane-forecasting-and-research For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.gov. The Saildrone project work was supported […]
The intensity of most tropical cyclones around the world are estimated by using satellite images. This study designed and evaluated convolutional neural network (CNN) models for estimating tropical cyclone intensity using geostationary satellite images. The selection of infrared channels was found to significantly affect the performance of these models. This work pointed out the best […]
For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.,gov. The full paper can be found at https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/phoc/aop/JPO-D-21-0164.1/JPO-D-21-0164.1.xml. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41806028, 41830533, 41606024); the National Basic Research Program of China, Monitoring and Forecasting of Finescale Structure and Impact Assessment of Landfalling Typhoons (2015CB452800) and the Construction Project of the National […]
Dr. Leighton presented a seminar titled “Characterizing Raindrop Size Distributions Observed in Hurricanes”. ABSTRACT: One of the main applications of radar measurements is to estimate rainfall rate based on its power-law relationships with radar reflectivity. Different relationships have been obtained for different weather scenarios. Hurricanes, in comparison with other severe weather systems, have a much longer […]
This study uses NOAA airborne Doppler radar data to tie together the many different characteristics of convective rainband updrafts that have been documented, both by observations and from modeling studies. The results help shed light on how these updraft circulations are organized and what underlying dynamics might contribute to the observed organization. You can access […]
Jason Dunion is this year’s recipient of the Richard H. Hagemeyer award for being a recognized leader who has made substantial, long-term contributions to the U.S. hurricane program. The award was presented to Jason on 11 March at the 2022 Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum/76th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference in Lakeland, FL. Congratulations, Jason! Jason […]
