The first NOAA P-3 mission of the 2019 hurricane season is scheduled to take off from Lakeland, FL at 4 pm EDT (2000 UTC) this afternoon to sample Potential Tropical Cyclone Two in the northeastern Gulf of America. The P-3 “Kermit” (NOAA42) will fly a lawnmower pattern (shown below) to collect data for NOAA’s National […]
Read the paper at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0373.1.
Jeff presented a seminar titled “Solving the Ensemble Square-Root Kalman Filter equations using matrix functions without an actual matrix – the “perfect” large-scale, scalable parallel method to assimilate all-sky satellite radiances in an ensemble” ABSTRACT: All-sky (clear or cloudy) satellite radiances are difficult to assimilate, but have a huge potential to improve NWP forecasts such […]
Addison presented a seminar titled “Radar Observations of Landfalling Hurricanes: Synthesizing Three Years of SMART Radar Missions” ABSTRACT: The Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching radars observed five landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) from 2016-2018. The observations were largely targeted toward understanding asymmetric convective and dynamic processes. Such processes are thought to lead to the intensification […]
June’s science meeting consisted of eight presentations: George Halliwell: Impact of the Anomalously Warm Gulf of America on Hurricane Michael (2018) Intensity Kathryn Sellwood: How do we get good data from Dropsondes? Nicolas Johnson (Hollings Scholar, UAH): Estimating Hurricane Surface Winds Addison Alford (OU): Structural Changes in the Hurricane Boundary Layer at Landfall Renee Richardson […]
Chris presented a seminar titled “Advances to NLDN and GLD360 and Applications of Lightning Data in Tropical Meteorology“. ABSTRACT: Vaisala owns and operates the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) and Global Lightning Dataset (GLD360), and continually works to enhance and improve the performance of the networks. In this talk we will review recent enhancements and […]
Get the news at https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-predicts-near-normal-2019-atlantic-hurricane-season.
