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2016 Hurricane Season ends

Today marks the last day of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, and it was a busy one for us.  AOML’s Hurricane Research Division (HRD) participated in 57 missions into six different tropical cyclones: Colin, Earl, Javier (East Pacific), Hermine, Karl, … Continue reading

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20th Anniversary of Hurricane Lili

On October 18, 1996, Hurricane Lili slammed into Cuba with over 100 mph (160 km/hr) winds and heavy rains.  The storm, during its life cycle, would leave destruction from Central America to the British Isles. Lili formed from a tropical … Continue reading

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HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm Karl Hermine – 30 September 2016

HRD researchers discussed the results from the 7 P-3, 5 G-IV, and 2 Global Hawk missions into Tropical Storm Karl (20-24 September 2016). The agenda for the discussion was: Slides from the debrief are available at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/meetings/2016/HFP/Karl_debrief.pptx

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One last flight into Karl

The P3 and G-IV are at it again for one last flight into Karl. The G-IV will take off at 1:30PM Eastern (1730 UTC) and the P3 will follow with a 2PM (1800 UTC) take off from St. Croix. Below … Continue reading

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Hurricane Field Program Update – Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 11AM Eastern

OPERATIONS Saturday, 24 Sept. 2016 NOAA43:  Flew a research mission into Karl. They took off around 0600 UTC (2AM Eastern) to and from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Two HRD scientists were on this flight. G-IV:  Is scheduled to fly a research mission over and … Continue reading

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Hurricane Field Program Update – Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 11AM Eastern

OPERATIONS Friday, 23 Sept. 2016 NOAA43:  Flew a research mission into Karl. They took off around 0600 UTC (2AM Eastern) to and from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Three HRD scientists were on this flight. G-IV:  Is scheduled to fly a research mission over and … Continue reading

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HRD & AOML researchers at 96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA – 11-14 January 2016

Abstracts and recordings of  the 19 presentations and 5 posters AOML & HRD researchers presented (or were co-authors) at the 96th AMS Annual Meeting are available online from the AMS website: Presentations: A First Look at the Impact of Coyote … Continue reading

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2015 Hurricane Field Program/Intensity Forecast EXperiment (HFP/IFEX) Planning Meeting

On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, Dr. Robert Rogers led a kick off meeting to discuss our flight experiments and modules that will be part of the 2015 hurricane field campaign. Click here to review the proposed experiments.

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Doppler radar quick-looks from 2:00 AM P-3 flight into Ex-Hurricane Arthur, 5 July 2014

As the remains of Hurricane Arthur transitioned into an extra-tropical cyclone as it approached landfall in Nova Scotia (the Gulf of Maine and Nova Scotia coast are visible as black line in the upper half  of the images) a P-3 … Continue reading

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Doppler radar quick-looks from 1:30 PM G-IV flight into Hurricane Arthur, 4 July 2014

As Hurricane Arthur passed southeast of Long Island, NY (the New England coast is visible as black line in the upper portion of the images) a G-IV mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model … Continue reading

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