National Weather Service - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/national-weather-service/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:45:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png National Weather Service - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/national-weather-service/ 32 32 NOAA Researchers Will Use 2015 Season to Improve Hurricane Track and Intensity Forecasts /2015-season-improves-forecasts/ Mon, 18 May 2015 00:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=5523 This hurricane season, NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research will work with NOAA’s National Weather Service to upgrade weather forecast models and conduct research with unmanned air and water craft to improve forecasts of hurricane track and intensity.A highlight this season is the upgrade of the operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system (HWRF), an advanced hurricane prediction model. This year’s version now has increased the resolution from 3 to 2 kilometers, and will use tail Doppler radar data collected from the NOAA P-3 and G-IV hurricane hunter aircraft to improve the storm representation within the model.

The post NOAA Researchers Will Use 2015 Season to Improve Hurricane Track and Intensity Forecasts appeared first on NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

]]>