Mu-Chieh Ko - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/mu-chieh-ko/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:05:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png Mu-Chieh Ko - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/mu-chieh-ko/ 32 32 NOAA Hurricane Model Performance is Evaluated for the First Time in Predicting Rainfall from 2017 Hurricane Harvey /hwrf-rainfall-prediction-harvey/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 11:43:37 +0000 /?p=15502 A recent study published in the journal Atmosphere evaluated for the first time, how well NOAA’s regional hurricane model was able to forecast the location and amount of devastating rainfall in 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model predicted the realistic total rainfall and the location of the maximum rainfall of Hurricane Harvey, which were the most devastating impacts of the storm’s landfall in coastal Texas.

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