HRD Seminar – Dr. Hua Leighton (CIMAS/HRD) – 24 March 2022
Dr. Leighton presented a seminar titled “Characterizing Raindrop Size Distributions Observed in Hurricanes”. ABSTRACT: One of the main applications of radar measurements is to estimate rainfall rate...
View ArticleHRD Monthly Science Meeting of March 2022
March’s science meeting consisted of four presentations by students of our collaborator Prof. Haiyan Zhang at Florida International University: Xinxi Wang: Relating Tropical Cyclone Intensification...
View ArticleStudy on the impact of mountains on rainfall and intensity of tropical...
This paper explores the effect of mountainous terrain on the structure of a tropical cyclone eyewall by using a numerical model to simulate the landfall of a typhoon in the Central Mountain Range (CMR)...
View ArticleStudy on estimating rain rate in hurricanes published in Geophysical Research...
The study significantly reduced the estimated errors and uncertainties of the rain rate by combining observed raindrop size and radar reflectivity using machine learning. Flooding from rainfall is one...
View ArticleHRD scientists participate in American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
The American Geophysical Union held their annual Fall Meeting 12-16 December in Chicago, and also online. Every year, the Fall Meeting unites >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries in the Earth and...
View ArticleHRD participates in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
The world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate community took place earlier this month in Denver, Colorado. Scientists from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological...
View ArticleRecap of 2022 Hurricane Field Program
Hurricane Field Program leadership held two sessions made up of a series of short science talks to wrap up the 2022 hurricane season. Talks included preliminary science results, challenges and...
View ArticleAltug Aksoy presents an invited talk to NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center
Altug Aksoy gave an invited talk at NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) as part of their Monthly Hurricane Seminar series. EMC is responsible for the development and implementation of more than 20...
View ArticleEvaluation of rainfall forecasts for tropical cyclones making landfall...
Rainfall produced by landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) in HAFS and HWRF-B hurricane models is evaluated by verifying precipitation characteristics, including the shape and size of the rainfall area....
View ArticleStudy of the impact on how urban areas are represented in computer forecast...
Urban flooding during tropical cyclone landfall can lead to major impacts, and understanding and forecasting it is an important and emerging research area. Two recent Atlantic hurricanes, Florence in...
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