New items coming from the NHC

[Portastorm]

Interesting read with interesting news:

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2013/03/coming-soon-cool-new-stuff-coming-from-the-national-hurricane-center/

[Kennethb]

I am fortunate to be able to attend the Hurricane Conference where Eric gave a presentation and discussion on media. At another session Daniel presented the information the NHC is looking to help in tropical cyclone forecasting and warnings. Dr. Knabb presenting the information too at a large session and seems very excited about the work.

Got to personally meet Dr. Knabb, Max Mayfield, Dr. Gray, Daniel and Eric Blake.Also saw Jim Cantore who I first met in 1992 when he covered Hurricane Andrew here in Baton Rouge and again when he gave me a tour of TWC.

Lots of discussion about Sandy and could this possibly be the beginning of another cycle of storms for the East Coast?

[cycloneye]

It was in the form of experimental but from this year it will be operational so is another first for NHC as podcasts of briefings by NHC director Rick Knabb or other personal when systems are a threat will be available.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification ... efings.htm

[cycloneye]

This will be very exciting to see when these Global Hawk missions around the Cape Verde Islands during the peak of the season begin to take data from those Tropical Cyclones that may form this year in the Eastern Atlantic.

http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/nasa-re ... hurricanes

With the start of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season less than a week away, NASA is preparing to send a pair of specially instrumented Global Hawk unmanned aircraft out over the Atlantic later this summer to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity.

Now in its second year, the NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, airborne mission brings together several NASA centers, including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with federal and university partners to study hurricane processes. Last year, just one Global Hawk flew during the campaign, focusing on the environment around tropical storms. This year, scientists will “double their fun” with a second aircraft and additional instruments focusing on the inner region of storms.

Global Hawk Two will include the JPL-developed High-Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer, or HAMSR instrument, which uses microwave wavelengths to measure temperature, water vapor and precipitation from the top of storms to the surface. HAMSR has previously participated in NASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment to study hurricanes in 2010. The instrument is demonstrating advanced technologies that are precursors to potential future satellite sensors.

“The advantage this year over 2012 is that the second aircraft will measure eyewall and rainband winds and precipitation, something we didn’t get to do last year,” said Scott Braun, HS3 mission principal investigator and research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “In addition, just as we did in 2012, the first aircraft will examine the large-scale environment that tropical storms form in and move through and how that environment affects the inner workings of the storms.”

The NASA Global Hawks will be piloted remotely from the HS3 mission base at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. Global Hawk aircraft are well-suited for hurricane investigations because they can fly for as long as 28 hours and fly over hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet (18,288 meters).

The mission will operate between Aug. 20 and Sept. 23

[Aric Dunn]

I am fortunate to be able to attend the Hurricane Conference where Eric gave a presentation and discussion on media. At another session Daniel presented the information the NHC is looking to help in tropical cyclone forecasting and warnings. Dr. Knabb presenting the information too at a large session and seems very excited about the work.

Got to personally meet Dr. Knabb, Max Mayfield, Dr. Gray, Daniel and Eric Blake.Also saw Jim Cantore who I first met in 1992 when he covered Hurricane Andrew here in Baton Rouge and again when he gave me a tour of TWC.

Lots of discussion about Sandy and could this possibly be the beginning of another cycle of storms for the East Coast?

This is the first time i did not attend the conference in the last 7 years . I have all them many times and are very down to earth. I have interviewed them all at multiple conference and cant wait till next year !