Paper reviewing the techniques the National Hurricane Center uses to predict rapid intensification published in Atmosphere
Read the full paper at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/12/6/683.
New paper tackling difficulties in the assimilation of radar and satellite data into forecast models published in Monthly Weather Review
The full paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0368.1.poterj
Paper on two rapidly intensifying typhoons published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.gov. The article is available at https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0223.1. The authors thank the US NCEP, JTWC, NRL, the Remote Sensing Systems, NOAA NESDIS, the European Union’s Copernicus and the AVISO team, and theArgo team for providing essential data sets. I.-I. L. acknowledges support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. R. R. […]
Paper on the likely impact of new satellites on forecasts published in Monthly Weather Review
The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission is a group of satellites that will provide observations of temperature, moisture, rainfall, and water particles in the atmosphere. Planned for launch in 2022, the satellites will provide measurements that will be particularly important for studying tropical cyclones because […]
2021 Hurricane Field Program begins
HRD’s 2021 Hurricane Field Program is starting with a series of missions into Tropical Storm Elsa. NOAA42 will fly a series of TDR missions out of the island Aruba. Also, NOAA49 will fly a series of NHC-tasked Synopitc Sureveillance missions.
2021 Hurricane Field Program data
Hurricane Field Program Data 2021 Storms Jump to data collected during each storm. Atlantic Basin Claudette Danny Elsa AL99 Fred Grace Henri Ida Larry Nicholas Peter AL96 Sam Miscellaneous East Pacific Basin Nora Pamela Rick Please review HRD's Data Policy prior to downloading data. Most data available on this page are Level 2, quality controlled, [...]
Shorties and the 2020 hurricane season
Chris Landsea and Eric Blake offer up an assessment of the 2020 hurricanes season and how it ranks among past seasons in NHC’s blog. Was 2020 a Record-Breaking Hurricane Season? Yes, But. . .
Jason Dunion, Frank Marks, and Rob Rogers participate in the WMO-sponsored Tropical Cyclone-Probabilistic Forecast Products Workshop
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) hosted a three-day virtual workshop on June 15, 17, and 18 to chart a path forward for evaluating, developing, and improving tropical cyclone probabilistic forecast products (TC-PFP). Co-led by Jason Dunion (NOAA/AOML/HRD and UM/CIMAS), Munehiko Yamaguchi (Japanese Meteorological Agency), and Hui Yu (Shanghai Typhoon Institute) as part of the WMO Working […]
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of June 2021
June’s science meeting consisted of six presentations: Nick Mesa (HRD): “Investigating intensity changes related to thermodynamic processes using near-coincident aircraft and satellite observations” Sophie Grimsley (HRD): “Hurricane Intensity Change and Boundary Layer Processes” Chris Landsea (NHC): “Was 2020 a Record-Breaking Hurricane Season? Yes, but… (Why did the new average number of Named Storms go up […]
Mu-Chieh Ko presents an Introduction to Machine Learning for Environmental Science
Machine Learning (ML) has become one of the most innovative methods to solve problems related to “big data.” in In environmental science, ML can be used as a prediction model, parameterization method, or model enhancement tool. This introduction included fundamentals of ML algorithms, including k-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, and Artificial Neural Networks, and their applications […]
