About a month ago I read a very interesting post here regarding the correlation between ozone levels and hurricanes. Here's the NASA link to the study:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_drop.html
Here is an exerpt:
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the agency that issues hurricane forecasts. Out of the 12 storms analyzed, the ozone data and the NHC official report differed on the mean distance between the estimated eye by less than 18 miles during the most intense stage of the storms. As such, when Zou and Wu added the satellite observed ozone levels around a hurricane into a computer forecast model, it greatly improved the predicted track that the hurricane would take. "
Here's my question. Does anyone know if the NHC has incorporated the ozone data into the computer models for this year's season? If so, which models?
-melissa
Ozone and Hurricane Prediction/NHC models
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Ozone and Hurricane Prediction/NHC models
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