Hurricane and Ocean Testbed Technical Workshop

NOAA P-3 data and satellite imagery overlain during a mission into Lisa. Data from the Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (showing wind and rain directly below the aircraft), Tail Doppler radar (measuring wind speed and direction throughout the storm), Wide-Swath Radar Altimeter (wave height below the aircraft), and flight-level instruments are all shown.

During recently flights into Hurricane Lisa, researchers from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), National Hurricane Center (NHC), Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) participated in a technical workshop, or “hack-a-thon,” in the new Hurricane and Ocean Testbed.

Alan Brammer and Samatha Camposano analyzing data during the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed exercise.

The goal of the exercise was to accelerate the integration of aircraft & in-situ observations into the National Weather Service’s data repository, called AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System). AWIPS is a processing, display, and telecommunications system that lies at the foundation of their operations and relies on observational data collected by scientists and Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

Hurricane researchers Heather Holbach and Rob Rogers participating in the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed exercise.

The exercise, held at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, was a huge success, resulting in a series of enhancements to products that display these observations in AWIPS.

Group photo of 11 participants in the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed [Front row L-R: Zorana Jelenak, Rob Rogers, Lisa Bucci, Samantha Camposano, Stephanie Stevenson, Heather Holbach, Jon Martinez, Second row L-R: Paul Reasor, Wallace Hogsett, Scott Stripling, Alan Brammer].

Para más información, póngase en contacto con aoml.communications@noaa.gov.