Ships Of Opportunity
Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) <!-- Quantifying Sea-Air CO2 Fluxes on Seasonal and Regional Timescales --> SCROLL TO LEARN MORE What We Do The Ship of Opportunity Program mission is to provide a global platform to deploy and operate oceanographic instrumentation from research vessels and cargo ships. Four NOAA investigators and three academic principal investigators have [...]GOMECC
Gulf and Ocean Monitoring Ecosystems and Carbon Cruises (GOMECC) SCROLL TO LEARN MORE What We Do In this project we are developing the North Atlantic Ocean, East and Gulf Coast ocean acidification (OA) observing system in response to the requirements of the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act. The observing system will be [...]
Study showing improvements to tropical cyclone forecasts in NOAA’s new Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System released online in Weather and Forecasting
A new forecast model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS), was introduced during the 2023 hurricane season. We found that the cloud microphysics (how ice and water behave in clouds) had large impacts on track forecasts and some impacts on structure and intensity forecasts. The boundary layer physics had a notable impact on the […]
Joe Cione earns Department of Commerce Gold Medal for deploying UAS into Hurricane Ian
At the 75th annual Department of Commerce Awards Ceremony, Joe Cione earned a Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement as part of the team that deployed the Altius drone into Hurricane Ian in 2022. The citation reads that the award was for “deploying a small uncrewed aircraft system into the eyewall of Hurricane Ian after a multi-year […]
FRESCA
Florida Regional Ecosystems Stressors Collaborative Assessment (FRESCA) Examining the effects of multiple environmental stressors on essential marine ecosystems across South Florida under a changing climate <!-- SCROLL TO LEARN MORE --> About the Project The Florida Regional Ecosystems Stressors Collaborative Assessment, or "FRESCA," is a four-year collaborative effort co-led by scientists at AOML and the [...]
Study showing how small errors in observations and models can impact predictability published in Chaos
This study uses a simple chaotic system to show that both model error and initial condition errors have profound impacts on predictability. These findings may have very important ramifications for how to design computer forecast models (and models in other fields where computer simulations are used) to improve their predictability. It is also shown for the first […]
AOML participates in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
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Historic NOAA-Saildrone mission did more than set records. It’s helping scientists improve hurricane forecasts
On September 30, 2021, a saildrone uncrewed surface vehicle made history by intercepting the eyewall of Hurricane Sam in the northwestern tropical Atlantic, recording a viral video of what it’s like to be tossed around by 100 mile-per-hour winds and 30-foot high waves. The Guinness Book of World Records later certified that a 126.4 mile-per-hour wind gust recorded […]
Paper on ways to improve hurricane forecasts by changing how models forecast what happens closest to the surface published in The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
This research develops and tests a new approach of mass-flux parameterizations in high-wind-speed conditions like hurricanes. The better scheme has been implemented into NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System-B model to advance its skill in predicting TC structure and impacts such as storm surge and wind damage. The lowest 1-2 km of atmosphere (the planetary boundary layer […]
