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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of April 2020

April’s science meeting consisted of four presentations: Xiaomin Chen –  “Evaluation of PBL schemes using a simple method of large-eddy simulations” Nicholas Foukal (WHOI) –  “Air-sea fluxes in the North Atlantic during extreme wind conditions” Andrew Hazelton – “Exploration of the Early Track and Intensity Uncertainty in Hurricane Dorian Using a HAFS Ensemble”  Frank Marks – “Pioneering […]

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Modeling Michael: Using NOAA’s HFV3 to predict rapid intensification of Hurricane Michael

Reposted from https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/news/modeling-michael/ In a recently published study, AOML hurricane researchers used multiple computer model forecasts to gain a better understanding of how Hurricane Michael rapidly intensified to 162 mph before making landfall in the panhandle of Florida. Hurricane Michael is an interesting  case as it intensified despite strong upper-level wind shear, which usually weakens […]

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Paper on how Hurricane Michael (2018) intensified rapidly in the Gulf of America published in Monthly Weather Review

Weather forecasters use computer models to make predictions. These forecasts of the future depend on knowing what is happening now, what we call initial conditions. However, we can’t measure the weather at every location on earth all the time, so we don’t know exactly what these initial conditions are. Therefore, we run forecast models many […]

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of March 2020

March’s science meeting consisted of four presentations: Lakemariam Worku: Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall and Convection over the Maritime Continent (the MC) Using TMPA and ISCCP Kathryn Sellwood: Calculating Shear from Dropsondes Michael Fischer: Tropical Cyclone Radar Archive of Dual-Doppler Analyses with Recentering (TC-RADAR) John Kaplan: Preliminary analysis of the impact of wind structure and eye predictors […]

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HRD Seminar – Dr. Altug Aksoy (CIMAS/HRD) – 3 March 2020

Dr. Aksoy presented a seminar titled “Assimilation of Coyote UAS Observations in Hurricane Maria (2017): Optimization of Data Impact”. ABSTRACT The Coyote is a low-altitude small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) that is air-launched from the NOAA WP-3D (P-3) hurricane hunter aircraft through its existing standard A-size sonobuoy launch capability. Its meteorological sensors directly measure temperature, […]

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