Over the period of June 27-July 2, 2002, a developing tropical system, later to become Super Typhoon Chataan, dumped heavy rains on the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) causing the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the Chuuk Islands (previously known as the Truk Islands). The disturbance formed from a monsoonal trough that had […]
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 […]
June’s science meeting consisted of 7 presentations: Brad Klotz – “Guidance on Observational Undersampling over the Tropical Cyclone Lifecycle” Pete Black – “Coordinating the the Global Hawk (NASA, NOAA, EPOCH) with the HRD AIPEX module (HFP)” Jon Zawislak and Heather Holbach – “Data Display, Archival, and Legacy (DDAL)” Leon Nguyen – “Science Motivation for Analysis […]
In the morning hours of June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey sent a 12-foot (3.7-m) storm surge over Cameron, Louisiana, as the storm lashed the area with 125 mph (205 km/hr) winds. Many residents were caught by surprise and had not evacuated, and the storm took some 400 lives. Audrey was an unusual June storm. It […]
On June 19, 1972, a minimal Category-One hurricane named Agnes came ashore near Panama City, Florida. While wind and storm-surge damage along the coast was small, the major impact from Agnes came afterward. Agnes developed from a disturbance over the Yucatan peninsula on June 14th. As the system drifted eastward over the Yucatan Channel, it […]
You can access the article at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10546-017-0266-x
The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) has become an important tool for both hurricane forecasters and researchers. The current HWRF has three domains around only one tropical cyclone. Its inner domain makes forecasts on a grid with points 2 km apart and follows the tropical cyclone during the forecast. During hurricane season in […]
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Summary: The new National Aeronautics and Space Administration CYclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) measures wind speed on the ocean surface. Because hurricanes happen over oceans where other wind data are usually not available, these new observations may be useful in pinpointing their positions and intensities. This study examines whether CYGNSS wind information will improve […]
Satellite images taken from an instrument called the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that can see things on the earth’s surface that are about 100 m (300 ft) across are used study the wind in tropical cyclones. The SAR can see small swirls (called vortices) near the eye of the hurricane, small long, thin lines […]
