The purpose of the season review and “hotwash” is to review the highlights from the season and discuss what went right / what went wrong / and what could be done better in the future with respect to Hurricane Field Program operations/plans/logistics, as well as provide feedback to AOC about the aircraft and their operations. […]
Alrick, participating in the NOAA Experiential Research and Training Opportunities (NERTO) program, presented a seminar titled “Understanding the Role of Eddy Vorticity Fluxes on the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Irma (2017) and Michael (2018)”. ABSTRACT The relationship between rapid intensification and environmental forcing is investigated for Hurricane Irma (2017) and Hurricane Michael (2018) using the […]
Read about it here.
Summary: The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) are satellites launched in 2006 to orbit the earth about 500 miles above ground. They use radio signals from Global Positioning System satellites in a process called “radio occultation” to measure temperature and moisture with high accuracy and resolution. These data have proven […]
Summary: Tropical cyclones (TCs) usually weaken when there is a large change in the wind speed or direction with height (wind shear) or when there is dry air in the core. Some TCs, like Hurricane Edouard (2014) can intensify, even rapidly, under these conditions. We use a series of model runs to understand how a […]
You can read the study at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0067.1
While the P3s are gathering data in Tropical Storm Nestor, HRD and friends celebrated the last regularly scheduled map discussion of the year with our annual Aloha Friday celebration. This year’s map discussion were presented by scientists and students from HRD, the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies/University of Miami, Penn State, San Jose […]
We are planning two flights into Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 for Friday. The first, with NOAA42, will depart Lakeland at 0800 EDT (1200 UTC) and perform a lawnmower pattern through and around the system The second, with NOAA43, will depart 12 hour later, and perform a butterfly pattern Both will return to Lakeland. Both missions […]
