The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reports on efforts at HRD to incorporate Doppler Radar data from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter aircraft into hurricane models to improve forecasts

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The National Hurricane Center hopes some new technological tools will significantly improve intensity forecasts, an area where it has struggled for decades.

James Franklin, the center’s top hurricane specialist, said he expects promising results this season from Doppler radar mounted on some hurricane hunter aircraft. It can capture the structure of much of a hurricane’s core.

Its information will be fed into two new computer forecast models, developed by Penn State and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Research Division. Test runs already have been encouraging.

Get more at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-hurricane-intensity-20130418,0,6265172.story