June’s science meeting consisted of eight presentations: George Halliwell: Impact of the Anomalously Warm Gulf of Mexico on Hurricane Michael (2018) Intensity Kathryn Sellwood: How do we get good data from Dropsondes? Nicolas Johnson (Hollings Scholar, UAH): Estimating Hurricane Surface Winds Addison Alford (OU): Structural Changes in the Hurricane Boundary Layer at Landfall Renee Richardson … Continue reading HRD Monthly Science Meeting of June 2019
Tag: Gulfstream-IV (G-IV)
Study of Hurricane Bonnie highlighted in the March issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Paper on getting the best TC forecasts using NOAA’s G-IV released online in Monthly Weather Review
Summary: During each hurricane season, NOAA’s Gulfstream-IV (G-IV) Hurricane Hunter aircraft measures wind, temperature, humidity, and pressure in and around hurricanes threatening the United States. An instrument called the dropwindsonde is released from the G-IV to collect the data as it falls to the ocean surface. The plane currently flies where we expect observations from the … Continue reading Paper on getting the best TC forecasts using NOAA’s G-IV released online in Monthly Weather Review
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2018
December’s science meeting consisted of seven presentations: Dave Raymond: "The Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) Field Campaign" Xuejin Zhang: "Development of Hurricane Analysis and Forecasting System" Rob Rogers: "Summary of the 2018 HFP-IFEX" Dr. Chris Barnett: "Overview of JPSS Atlantic/SAL Field Campaign Activities" Gus Alaka: "Verification of the 2018 Basin-Scale HWRF" Michael Fischer: … Continue reading HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2018
AOML Keynotes highlights this past year’s Hurricane Field Program, outreach to local students, and more.
Read the latest issue at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/keynotes/PDF-Files/Sept-Oct2018.pdf
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Michael – 26 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 6 P-3 and 3 G-IV missions into Hurricane Michael, AL14 (8-10 October 2018). The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview (Jon Zawislak) 20181008H1 (Kelly Ryan) 20181009H1 (Rob Rogers) 20181009N2 (Jason Dunion/ John Kaplan) 20181009H2/Coyote (Kelly Ryan) 20181010H1 (Rob Rogers/ Jon Zawislak) EMC … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Michael – 26 October 2018
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Florence, EP96 Genesis, and G-IV SAL Mission – 22 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 3 P-3 and 9 G-IV missions into Hurricane Florence, AL06 (8-13 September 2018). The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview 20180908H1 (Jon Zawislak) 20180909H1 (Jon Zawislak) 20180910H1 (Jon Zawislak) NESDIS / Ocean Winds (Joe Sapp NESDIS) HRD researchers also discussed the results … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Florence, EP96 Genesis, and G-IV SAL Mission – 22 October 2018
HRD observation team monthly meeting – 18 October 2018
The purpose of the observation team meetings is to bring together the people who use observations in their research on a regular basis to discuss issues they’re having, provide updates on observations they’re analyzing or collecting, and any other information that may be of interest to the broader group. These meetings are also an excellent … Continue reading HRD observation team monthly meeting – 18 October 2018
HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm Gordon and Hurricane Isaac – 17 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 3 P-3 missions into Tropical Storm Gordon, AL07 (3-4 September 2018) . The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview (Jon Zawislak) 180903H1 (Robert Rogers) 180904H1 (Ghassan Alaka) 180904H2 (Hui Christophersen) HRD researchers also discussed the results from the 5 P-3 missions into … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm Gordon and Hurricane Isaac – 17 October 2018
Hurricane Field Program Update – Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The NOAA P-3 completed its last mission into Hurricane Michael this morning, passing through the storm four times. As in the previous three missions, we provided critical measurements of the 3-D wind, precipitation, and thermodynamic (temperature and humidity) structure of the storm from our Doppler radar, dropsondes, and flight level measurements. The data was not … Continue reading Hurricane Field Program Update – Wednesday, October 10, 2018
