Nice article on hurricane research!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00514.html
Research Team Seeking Clues to a Hurricane's Birth (article)
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Last year's very intense hurricane season was preceded by above-average temperatures in the usually cool waters off West Africa, but it remains unclear what effect that unusual warmth might have had.
well, if my memory serves me correctly, didnt the biggest and worst hurricanes, and to some extent most last year form close to home... i count what 8, maybe i am wrong, that formed west of 50 last year.. lol... just funny how they make it sound the way they want it too.. like the worst of last year came from that area of the world... the media!!! who needs them...
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This project is very interesting for all of us watching the waves coming out of Africa. They are going to monitor these waves using satellites, radar, lightning detection, dropsondes, and flying into them. And the observations will be available online.
If you open the website of the NAMMA project, and click on the Flight Tracks tab, you will find a link to a Real Time Mission Monitor, which actually is a Google Earth (GE) application.
Although the real project starts on August 15, the application is already up and running.
If you are going to use this application, read the instructions on the top of the monitor folder in GE, especially:
"It is important that you do not click the top/root folder boxes. This will select all items in the folder for display. This will cause unnecessary traffic on the network and also increase processor utilization on the RTMM data servers."
Unfortunately the MSG folder (Meteosat images) doesn't work without password. But there are a lot of interesting overlays working already.
If you open the website of the NAMMA project, and click on the Flight Tracks tab, you will find a link to a Real Time Mission Monitor, which actually is a Google Earth (GE) application.
Although the real project starts on August 15, the application is already up and running.
If you are going to use this application, read the instructions on the top of the monitor folder in GE, especially:
"It is important that you do not click the top/root folder boxes. This will select all items in the folder for display. This will cause unnecessary traffic on the network and also increase processor utilization on the RTMM data servers."
Unfortunately the MSG folder (Meteosat images) doesn't work without password. But there are a lot of interesting overlays working already.
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