NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) has tasked their P-3 Hurricane Hunters for reconnaissance missions into Hurricane Isaias to begin Friday, July 31 at 4:00 AM with additional missions to follow in subsequent days. Measurements collected within Isaias’ environment will provide forecasters with the most up-to-date information about the storm’s characteristics and will be used to initialize operational […]
Scientists from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Hurricane Research Division are participating in the first Unified Forecast System (UFS) Users Workshop held virtually July 27-29, 2020. UFS is a new Earth modeling system that is under active development to become NOAA’s main operational numerical weather prediction model. It is a single model that will make forecasts in local regions […]
Summary: In order to accurately forecast the weather, models must accurately represent how liquid water and ice particles in cloud form, grow, and disappear, how big and how many of each there are. To do that, we must know how this all works in real clouds. The NOAA P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft have instruments called […]
During the summer of 2020, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory virtually hosted two Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship recipients, Samantha Michlowitz and Nikolaus Rentzke. Recently, they presented seminars of their work to AOML’s Hurricane Research Division. Their summer project presentations will take place during NOAA’s final presentation week in early August. Michlowitz, a rising […]
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) continues to task NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter aircraft NOAA43 into Tropical Storm Hanna located in the Gulf of America. AOML radar and dropsonde experts are providing remotely-based data processing in support of these operational missions. The flights are scheduled to continue through Saturday morning, July 25, 2020. The second mission in […]
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has tasked NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter aircraft to investigate Tropical Depression Eight in the Gulf of America the evening of Thursday, July 23, 2020. AOML scientists are providing remotely-based data processing expertise for this operational mission. Missions are expected to continue every 12 hours until landfall. The NOAA43 aircraft named “Miss Piggy” took […]
Summary: The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an eastward-moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, wind, and pressure that circles the earth in the tropics and returns to its starting point every 30 to 60 days, on average. One part of the MJO is stormy and wet and supports the development of thunderstorms, and another part is […]
July’s science meeting consisted of three presentations: Samantha Michlowitz: “Air-Sea Interactions in Hurricanes: How Much Does the Ocean Cool Underneath the Storm?” Rob Rogers: “Multiscale Aspects of the Different Intensity Evolutions of Two Rapidly Intensifying Typhoons” Stan Goldenberg: “Arthur and Bertha and Cristobal — OH MY! Dolly and Edouard and Fay (?) — OH MY! […]
On July 7, HRD Director Frank Marks presented a talk on HFIP to the Extreme Events-Ocean Observations Workshop Planning Task Team under the NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Global Ocean and Monitoring Program (https://globalocean.noaa.gov/). The Task Team is organizing a workshop to design a pilot project that employs a number of observing platforms for improved forecasts […]
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