HRD intern Kelly Nuñez Ocasio highlighted in the NOAA Research EEO Connections Newsletter
The full newsletter can be found at https://eeo.oar.noaa.gov/Newsletter/2019/2019studenteditionUpdated.pdf
Paper on different pathways to tropical cyclone intensity changes published in Earth and Space Science
Read the full manuscript at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019EA000585.
Jun Zhang and Rob Rogers honored with Banner I. Miller Award
The American Meteorological Society has announced that Dr. Jun Zhang, Dr. David S. Nolan, Dr. Robert F. Rogers, and Dr. Vijay S. Tallapragada have won the 2020 Banner I. Miller Award for their paper, “Evaluating the impact of improvements in the boundary layer parameterization on hurricane intensity and structure forecasts in HWRF,” which significantly advanced […]
HRD Seminar – Kelly Nuñez Ocasio, NERTO and Pennsylvania State University – 19 July 2019
Kelly presented a seminar titled “PV budget analysis on high resolution simulations to understand the interaction of AEWs with associated convection”. Abstract: The role of convection and associated potential vorticity (PV) generation have been shown to be significant in the evolution of African Easterly Waves (AEWs); however, how the evolving AEWs lead to tropical cyclogenesis […]
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of July 2019
July’s science meeting consisted of two presentations: Hua Leighton: Revisit of Microphysics Observation Paige Brown (Stanford University): Low-cost, Altitude Controlled Latex Balloon for Mapping Atmospheric Data The two presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2019/Science/HRD_SciMeet_20190711.zip
HRD Seminar – George “Trey” Alvey, CIMAS/HRD – 16 July 2019
Trey presented a seminar titled “How do sheared tropical cyclones evolve towards symmetry before rapid intensification?” ABSTRACT: In seemingly similar environments, some moderately sheared tropical storms undergo rapid intensification (RI) evolving towards more symmetrical precipitation structures but others do not. What role do the vortex tilt, humidification, and precipitation symmetry play in helping distinguish those […]
HRD in USA Today
Read the article at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/10/hurricanes-july-happen-look-past-storms/1694664001/
Hurricane Field Program Update — Friday, July 12, 2019
A NOAA P-3 (“Kermit”) mission into Tropical Storm Barry this morning successfully sampled the structure of the storm and completed data collection objectives for NOAA/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). Shown below, they completed a rotated Figure 4 pattern, four passes through the center, dropping dropsondes throughout the pattern and collecting valuable Doppler radar data. The […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Thursday, July 11, 2019
The second EMC-tasked NOAA P-3 (NOAA 42, aka “Kermit”) mission into Tropical Storm Barry successfully completed their flight objectives this morning, landing back in Lakeland, FL around 11 am EDT. Below shows the completed flight pattern, in which the crew flew a “butterfly” pattern sampling multiple legs through the developing center of the storm. After the […]
