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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of February 2019

February’s science meeting consisted of four presentations: Paul Reasor – “Estimating Wind Radii from Tail Doppler Radar” John Kaplan – “Gust Factor Distributions in Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, a Preliminary Analysis Michael Fischer – “Characteristics of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Events in Environments of Upper-Tropospheric Troughs” Xiaomin Chen – “Structural Changes Leading to Rapid Intensification […]

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Advanced Manufacturing Lab

The Advanced Manufacturing & Design Lab From Prototype to Proof of Concept with State-of-the-Art Technology  SCROLL TO LEARN MORE Driving Innovative Science With State-of-The-Art Technology What We Do: The Advanced Manufacturing and Design Lab (AMDL) was created as a resource for our scientists and collaborators to build and explore new technologies that enhance data collection. [...]
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Jason Dunion’s presentation at the most recent AMS Hurricane Conference highlighted in the December 2018 issue of the AMS Bulletin

At the recent American Meteorological Society Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Jason presented his work with co-authors Chris Thorncroft, Chris Velden, and Brian McNoldy about the diurnal cycle of convection in hurricanes.  This cycle is a dramatic outward expansion of clouds that begins moving away from the storm center each day around sunset and […]

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2018

December’s science meeting consisted of seven presentations: Dave Raymond: “The Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) Field Campaign” Xuejin Zhang: “Development of Hurricane Analysis and Forecasting System” Rob Rogers: “Summary of the 2018 HFP-IFEX” Dr. Chris Barnett: “Overview of JPSS Atlantic/SAL Field Campaign Activities” Gus Alaka: “Verification of the 2018 Basin-Scale HWRF” Michael Fischer: […]

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