Not exact matches
«It's giving unparalleled
details about the
hurricanes,» Tang says, including data on wind speeds and water temperatures delivered every minute that are then fed into
models.
2) As with some previous potent winter storms and
hurricanes (including Sandy), there's been a consistent focus on the computer
model of the European Center for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, for short) as the best at getting
details like snowfall amounts right.
The visualizations, created using state - of - the - art computer
models, amount to some of most
detailed looks at any
hurricane to date.
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Details about this video animation The video animation shows the near surface (10m) winds and rainfall intensity over the Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding land areas during the main development phase of
Hurricane Katrina, August 24 - 30, 2005, based on NCEP - GFS forecast
model analyses.
One of the biggest challenges for
hurricane modeling is creating a
model that can accurately depict the large - scale, environmental flow of the atmosphere that is largely responsible for steering the
hurricane, while at the same time representing the finer scale
details of the inner core region that determine the intensity of the storm.
Now, imagine an advanced monitoring system capable of analyzing these far - away storms in
detail, coupled to a near - perfect
model covering fully the whole life cycle of a tropical storm that will be transformed into a
hurricane.