May’s science meeting consisted of five presentations: Jonathan Zawislak - The Relationship Between Observed Thermodynamic and Precipitation Properties During TC Intensity Change Paul Reasor - Vortex Alignment Processes in Vertically-Sheared Tropical Storms John Kaplan - Statistical Rapid Intensification Model Development: Recent Results and Efforts to Include Storm Structure All the presentations are available on the …
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 …
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 …
Coyote awarded the 2018 Aviation Week Laureate Award winner for Defense, Dual Use
Aviation Week & Space Technology announced that the COYOTE UAV has been selected as a winner of the 61st Annual Laureate Awards, honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena. The winners will be honored on 1 March, 2018, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, and a Grand Laureate will be announced. The …
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2017 Hurricane Field Program summary
AOML's Hurricane Research Division (HRD) ran its 2017 Hurricane Field Program from July 27th through October 27th and accomplished many of the objectives set for this busy hurricane season. In addition to carrying out Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) missions in coordination with NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), HRD flew the Analysis of Intensification Processes Experiments …
NOAA flights into 2017 major hurricanes, improvements to HWRF and the basin-scale model, recalling Hurricane Andrew, and a tribute to Mike Black in the most recent version of AOML Keynotes
Check it out at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/keynotes/PDF-Files/July-Sept2017.pdf
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricanes Irma, Jose, and Maria – Part 2 – 19 October 2017
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 17 P-3, 13 G-IV, and 51 AF WC-130 missions into Hurricanes Irma, Jose, and Maria (3-8 September 2017). The agenda for the discussion was: HRD/AOML support for EMC operations (Paul Reasor) TDR-related issues, resolved and continuing (John Gamache) Data impacts on HWRF forecasts (Jason Sippel) Open discussion of …
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricanes Irma, Jose, and Maria – Part 1 – 4 October 2017
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 8 P-3 and 8 G-IV missions into Hurricane Irma (3-8 September 2017). The agenda for the discussion was: Missions Overview (Reasor) Science Discussions 20170903H1 TDR (Jon Zawislak) 20170904H1 TDR (Rob Rogers) 20170904H2 TDR (Jon Zawislak) 20170905H1 TDR (Rob Rogers) 20170905H2 TDR (Jon Zawislak) 20170908H1 TDR (Jon Zawislak) 20170908H2 …
Hurricane Field Program Update – Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, 11 AM ET
OPERATIONS Saturday, 7, Oct. 2017 G-IV: The jet was tasked by NHC for a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Nate with a take off around 1:30 AM ET. This flight was canceled. NOAA42: The P3 was scheduled to fly an Analysis of Intensification Processes Experiment (AIPEX) research mission into Hurricane Nate. Take off was at 4:00 …
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Saturday flights into Hurricane Nate
NOAA's hurricane hunter aircraft continue to gather data in and around Hurricane Nate. There are four flights scheduled for today; two for the G-IV and two for theP3. The first G-IV flight scheduled for 1:30 AM ET was canceled. The G-IV will fly this afternoon taking off at 1:30 PM ET. NOAA49 as the jet is also …
