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Shirley Murillo, Xaymara Serrano, and Alejandra Lorenzo attend the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science National Diversity in STEM Conference in Salt Lake City

Shirley Murillo, HRD’s Deputy Director, along with Alejandra Lorenzo, Information Technology Specialist at AOML, and Xaymara Serrano, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies working at AOML’s Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, all attended the SACNAS Diversity in STEM Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in October.   Shirley was a […]

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Jon Zawislak and Jun Zhang attend AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans

HRD/CIMAS scientists Jon Zawislak and Jun Zhang attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans.  Jon presented a talk, co-authored with Paul Reasor, entitled “Unique Datasets Collected by NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft during the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season.” Other talks co-authored by HRD scientists were: Bryan, G. H., J. Cione, A. Aksoy, B. Baker, B. […]

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2017

December’s science meeting consisted of three presentations: Dave Nolan:  Preliminary results on the sources of condensate in the hurricane outflow layer Jun Zhang:  Observations of gravity waves in tropical cyclones Leon Nguyen:  Assessing tropical cyclone intensity change in moderate vertical wind shear using dropsondes: thermodynamics of the lower troposphere All the presentations are available on […]

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HRD Seminar – Dr. Morgan O’Neill, T. C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago – 14 November 2017

Dr. O’Neill presented a seminar on “Diurnal gravity waves as a probe of hurricanes’ internal structure“. Abstract: Satellite observations of cloudy hurricane canopies have shown a universal, daily, wave-like feature that propagates radially outward, as far as 600 km (Dunion et al. 2014). Daytime solar heating of a hurricane’s upper eyewall is surely responsible, but […]

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HRD observation team monthly meeting – 16 November 2017

The purpose of the observation team meetings is to bring together the people who use observations in their research on a regular basis to discuss issues they’re having, provide updates on observations they’re analyzing or collecting, and any other information that may be of interest to the broader group.  These meetings are also an excellent […]

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Paper on a way to initialize idealized hurricane models published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Computer models developed to forecast the weather need to know what is currently happening in the atmosphere and in the ocean, what we call “initial conditions,” each time the model starts. The process of making these initial conditions is known as “initialization.” This study is about a new initialization method for both the atmosphere and […]

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