December’s science meeting consisted of 6 presentations:

1. Paul Reasor (HRD):  “Real-time, storm-scale diagnostics derived from Tail Doppler Radar”,
2. Jun Zhang (HRD):  “Recent improvement in physical parameterization of horizontal turbulent mixing in HWRF “,
3. Rob Rogers (HRD):  “Re-writing the Tropical Record Books:  The Extraordinary Intensification of Hurricane Patricia (2015)”,
4. Hui Christophersen (HRD):  ‘Composite Analysis of Global Hawk Dropsonde Impact for Edouard (2014)’
5. Eric Blake (NHC):  “Hurricane Forecasting Challenges During 2016”
6. John Cangialosi (NHC):  “2016 Track/Intensity/Genesis Forecast Verification”

All the presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at:

ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/meetings/2017/Science/HRD_SciMeet_20161208.zip