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HRD employees recognized at AOML Awards ceremony

Posted on December 16, 2016 by

At a recent awards ceremony, HRD Director Frank Marks and AOML Deputy Director Molly Beringer presented recognitions to several employees whose service went above-and-beyond during the past year. Bachir Annane was recognized for comprehensive and timely analyses using the OSSE framework … Continue reading →

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HRD Seminar – Dr. Sim Aberson, AOML/HRD – 5 December 2016

Posted on December 7, 2016 by

Dr. Aberson presented a seminar titled  “Dropsondes in Hurricanes (1949 to the present)” Abstract: The history of the use of dropsondes in hurricanes will be presented with special emphasis on the achievements since the development and implementation of the NCAR GPS … Continue reading →

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Two-part paper on the intensification of Hurricane Edouard published in Monthly Weather Review

Posted on November 5, 2016 by

 Summary: Hurricane Edouard (2014) is examined using radar onboard NOAA P-3 aircraft that flew the storm. Two periods are shown, one when the storm was intensifying to a major hurricane and the other when the storm was weakening. The location … Continue reading →

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Frank Marks talks to the Cosumnes River College Connection about Hurricane Matthew

Posted on October 18, 2016 by

Read the article at http://crcconnection.com/2016/10/18/hurricane-matthew-leaves-nearly-1-2-mln-in-u-s-southeast.html.

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Paper on variations in the surface winds in tropical cyclones released online in Geophysical Research Letters

Posted on October 7, 2016 by

 Summary: Special radars on satellites, known as scatterometers, use the relationship between the conditions on the ocean surface and surface wind speed and direction to provide a view of the surface winds in and around tropical cyclones (hurricanes in … Continue reading →

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of August 2016

Posted on August 15, 2016 by

August’s science meeting consisted of 7 presentations: Xuejin Zhang – “The 2016 Basin-Scale HWRF (HB16)” Alan Brammer (University of Albany/SUNY) – “Exploitation of Ensemble Prediction System Information in Support of Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis Prediction” Erin Dougherty (University of Albany/SUNY)- “Hurricane … Continue reading →

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of July 2016

Posted on July 14, 2016 by

July’s science meeting consisted of 5 presentations: Joaquin Trinanes (AOML/PhOD) – “CoastWatch and PhOD satellite and ocean products in support of HRD 2016 hurricane season activities” Erin Dougherty (SUNY- Albany, HRD visitor) – “Hurricane Bonnie (1998): Maintaining Intensity during High … Continue reading →

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Paper on getting surface wind speeds in tropical cyclones from polar-orbiting satellites published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Posted on June 28, 2016 by

The full article can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7452597.

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AOML and HRD researchers at 32nd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 10-14 April 2016

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

Twenty-three AOML and HRD scientists participated in the recent 32nd AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in San Juan, PR, as authors or co-authors on 36 presentations and 11 posters. Roughly 650 presentations (452 oral presentations in 70 sessions and … Continue reading →

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HRD Monthly Science Meeting of May 2016

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

May’s science meeting consisted of 4 presentations: Gustavo Goni (AOML/PhOD) : “PHOD Underwater Glider Operations” Haiyan Jiang (FIU): “What is in the 37 GHz Cyan+Pink Ring of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones?” Cheng Tao (FIU): “The Evolution of Stratiform and Convective … Continue reading →

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