Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX) Program Director Jon Zawislak and HRD Director Frank Marks briefed the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) personnel at their brand new facility at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport on IFEX plans for 2018 and Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project progress, respectively. The two presentations are available in a .zip archive on the anonymous ftp …
Paper on a proposed satellite system to measure gravity waves from severe storms released online by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
You can read the paper at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0064.1.
Paper on the the first observation of gamma‐ray emission from lightning within a hurricane eyewall published in the Journal of Geophysical Research
Read the paper online at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2017JD027771.
Paper on secondary eyewall formation in tropical cyclones published in The Journal of Geophysical Research
You can read the paper at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2017JD027410.
AOML and HRD researchers at 33rd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL – 15-20 April 2018
Thirty-one AOML and HRD scientists participated in the recent 33rd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Ponte Vedra, FL, as authors or co-authors on 65 presentations and 19 posters. Roughly 783 presentations (507 oral presentations in 67 sessions and 276 posters in 2 session) were submitted to the conference. Of the 567 TC-related presentations …
Hurricane Season is approaching!
With the start of the 2018 hurricane season less than two weeks away, HRD and AOML employees have been engaging in several outreach opportunities to promote hurricane preparedness and enhance public understanding of the role of research in improving hurricane forecasts. From May 10th to the 12th, NOAA's AOML, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, and Miami …
Paper on how small-scale changes in winds in hurricanes impact hurricane forecasts published in Weather and Forecasting
Summary: Forecasters and researchers use the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model to forecast where a hurricane will go, how strong and large it will be, and where the strongest winds will be. Wind in hurricanes are different over very short distances like 100 m, or the length of a football field, what is …
HRD researchers at 72nd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference/Tropical Cyclone Research Forum, Miami, FL – 13-15 March 2018
HRD and AOML scientists participated in the 72nd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference/Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum. HRD and AOML scientists presented or were coauthors on 8 of the 39 presentations. Jason Sippel chaired the two Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) sessions, Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan chaired a panel discussion on “Recent and Planned Improvements in Modeling Capability”, and …
HRD employees honored with Andrew Awards for going above-and-beyond during Hurricane Irma
AOML's Diversity, Inclusion & You (DIY) group honored employees who went above-and-beyond their regular duty during Hurricane Irma's impact on their homes and families last September. Among those honored were a number of HRD employees: Jonathan A. Zawislak, Bradley W. Klotz, Heather M. Holbach, Lisa R. Bucci: For exceptional professionalism and dedication to NOAA’s mission, …
NOAA Hurricane Research overview for WMO Region IV Training Workshop, NHC – 26 February 2018
To demonstrate how tropical cyclone research is used to improve forecast guidance HRD researchers Drs. Frank Marks, Robert Rogers, and Jason Sippel presented summaries of “NOAA’s Hurricane Research”, “Aircraft Observations of Tropical Cyclones”, and "Tropical Cyclone Modeling and Data Assimilation" to the World Meteorological Organization Regional Association IV Training Workshop held in the National Hurricane …
