The main purpose of this research is to determine how consumer stockpiling (or precautionary buying) behavior, as well as storm and retail characteristics, impact the availability of essential supplies at retailers following a hurricane. You can access the paper at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3309457. For more information, contact Erica Rule, AOML Communications Director, at erica.rule@noaa.gov.
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Paper on how the regions closest to the surface changed during the landfall of Hurricane Irene in 2011 released online in The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Summary: Objects on land and the land itself cause wind to be weaker at the surface than above due to friction. In hurricanes, the strongest wind occurs where friction is no longer important, near the top of a region we call the boundary layer. Some people live close to the surface, but others live in … Continue reading Paper on how the regions closest to the surface changed during the landfall of Hurricane Irene in 2011 released online in The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Article about flying the Coyote drone in hurricanes on the cover of the February 2020 issue of BAMS
You can read more about this study and access the research article at https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/braving-the-eye-of-the-storm-research-from-drone-penetration-of-hurricane-eyewall-published/.
Paper on turbulence near the ocean surface when there are swell waves released online in the Journal of Physical Oceanography
Read the study at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0136.1.
Paper on how Hurricane Michael (2018) intensified rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico released online in Monthly Weather Review
Weather forecasters use computer models to make predictions. These forecasts of the future depend on knowing what is happening now, what we call initial conditions. However, we can't measure the weather at every location on earth all the time, so we don't know exactly what these initial conditions are. Therefore, we run forecast models many … Continue reading Paper on how Hurricane Michael (2018) intensified rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico released online in Monthly Weather Review
Paper on the temperature structure of tropical cyclones and their relationship to intensity changes released online in Atmospheric Research
You can read the full study at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809519316229?via%3Dihub
Paper on the boundary layer of tropical cyclones and how it impacts intensity published in Atmosphere
Read the paper at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/2/158
Paper evaluating different schemes to predict convection in hurricanes released online in Weather and Forecasting
Forecasters and researchers use the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model to forecast where a hurricane will go, how strong it will be, how large it will be, and where the strongest winds are. Hurricanes are made up of thunderstorms (what we call convection), but individual thunderstorms are too small for the models we … Continue reading Paper evaluating different schemes to predict convection in hurricanes released online in Weather and Forecasting
Paper on wind asymmetries in tropical cyclones as seen by satellite published in Remote Sensing
Read the study at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/22/2604.
Paper on estimating wind direction in tropical cyclones from synthetic aperture radar published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Read the paper at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8884668
