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, …

HRD & AOML researchers at 98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Austin, TX – 7-11 January 2018

Abstracts and recordings of  the 27 presentations and 9 posters AOML & HRD researchers presented (or were co-authors) at the 98th AMS Annual Meeting are available online from the AMS website: Presentations: Karina Apodaca, M. Zupanski, L. Cucurull, and M. Hu - Implementation of the GOES-16 GLM Lightning Assimilation into the NCEP/GSI System for Improved …

Lisa Bucci named NOAA Team Member of the Month

Lisa Bucci was honored this month for her courageous work last year during Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic hurricane -- the most intense storm to strike the U.S. coastline since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the morning of September 7, 2017, the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued hurricane watches …

Kelly Ryan, Renellys Perez, and Lisa Bucci talk about recent outreach events

Kelly Ryan and Lisa Bucci of HRD and Renellys Perez of AOML's Physical Oceanography Division presented their recent experiences in talking to students around the country about their careers and experiences. Kelly went to the Intrepid Air, Sea, and Space Museum in New York City to talk to students of all ages at their GOALS …

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 …

Lisa Bucci highlighted in Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies video

Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-2AA2NmmE.

5th Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy

On October 29, 2012, Extratropical Cyclone Sandy (dubbed Superstorm Sandy by the media) made landfall at Brigatine, New Jersey bringing a massive storm surge to New Jersey and New York.  It was the costliest storm for that hurricane season and the second costliest in recorded history.  It was also an extraordinary study in complex transitions …

HRD Monthly Science Meeting of October 2017

October’s science meeting consisted of 5 presentations: Gus Alaka – 2017 Basin-Scale HWRF Preliminary Verification Sim Aberson – IFS (EC) and GFS Forecasts During 2017 Sim Aberson – Extreme Horizontal and Vertical Winds Measured by Dropwindsondes During the 2017 Hurricane Field Program Lisa Bucci – P-3 Doppler Wind Lidar: 2017 Progress Heather Holbach – WSRA …

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 …

HRD Seminar – Dr. Javier Delgado and Lisa Bucci, UM/CIMAS & HRD – 18 August 2017

Dr. Delgado and Ms. Bucci presented a seminar on "A 2 km Basin Scale Nature Run for a Hurricane Regional OSSE System". Abstract: A realistic Nature Run is the foundation to a useful Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) framework.  A high-resolution, Basin Scale Nature Run (BSNR) using the Non-hydrostatic Multiscale Model on the B grid …