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 […]
On November 25, 1987, Typhoon Nina (known as Typhoon Sisang in the Philippines) struck the island of Luzon. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the archipelago in six years and left over 800 people dead in its wake. Nina began as a disturbance near the Marshall Islands on Nov. 16th. It moved northwestward […]
AOML’s Hurricane Research Division (HRD) ran its 2017 Hurricane Field Program from July 27th through October 27th and accomplished many of the objectives set for this busy hurricane season. In addition to carrying out Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) missions in coordination with NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), HRD flew the Analysis of Intensification Processes Experiments […]
Shirley Murillo has won election to the Council of the American Meteorological Society as representative from the Government Sector. The Council is the principal governing body of the Society. It consists of the elective officers, the last two Past-Presidents, and 15 other voting members of the Society, each elected for a three-year term, with one-third […]
Check it out at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/keynotes/PDF-Files/July-Sept2017.pdf
Launched in December 2016, CYGNSS is a constellation of eight microsatellites designed to measure surface winds in and near the inner core of hurricanes, including regions beneath the eye wall and intense inner rainbands that could not previously be measured from space. The CYGNSS-measured wind fields, when combined with precipitation fields (e.g., produced by the […]
On November 2, 2007, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Aerosonde flew into Tropical Storm Noel. This marks the first time a UAV flew into an Atlantic tropical cyclone while encountering hurricane-force winds. The flying probe was produced by the Australian-based Aerosonde Pty Ltd. (now Textron Systems) which had been manufacturing sensors since 1995. It reached […]
You can read the paper at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0011.1.
You can read about it at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0055.1.
