February’s science meeting was hosted by NHC and consisted of nine presentations. The first two presented an overview of the proposed Tropical Marine Testbed (TMT) from a NWS and OAR perspective, and the remaining seven presentations were from NHC and HRD researchers describing potential projects that the TMT might tackle:
Overview of Tropical Marine Testbed concept
- Ken Graham: “Vision for the lab at NHC”
- John Cortinas: “Remarks on new testbed at NHC”
- Q&A for Ken and John
Presentations
- Eric Blake: “Recent forecast challenges from the NHC perspective”
- Stacy Stewart: “Comparisons of WSR 88-D velocity data to flight-level aircraft recon data”
- Lakemeriam Worku: “Testing of the Inland Wind Recommender as part of the Hazardous Weather Testbed for Tropical Cyclone (HWT-TC)”
- Paul Reasor and Heather Holbach: “Reduction of Airborne Tail-Doppler Radar Winds to the Surface”
- Andy Hazelton and Gus Alaka: “Real-time 3-D TC Structure Evaluations for High-Resolution Output from HAFS and HWRF”
- Michael Fischer: “”New techniques to use observations to relate TC structure to intensity change”
- Pete Black: “Possible Real Time display of WSRA/ KAIA Surface Waves and TDR/SFMR Surface Winds in wave-relative and storm-relative coordinates”

Copies of the last seven presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2021/Science/HRD_SciMeet_20210211.zip
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