Not exact matches
TACC scientists worked
with NOAA to create real - time 3 - D simulation
models of
Hurricane Ike making landfall to help Texas make decisions about evacuations when the storm hit.
With GOES - 16 and CYGNSS nearly online, scientists are looking forward to even better
hurricane models thanks to even better data.
Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate
hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces
with computer
modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.
Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along
with a new theoretical
model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the
hurricane.
Orton's team is preparing a paper on the results, and is already comparing notes
with other groups that
model storms, including the Dutch company Arcadis and the U.S. National
Hurricane Center.
By working on the still - not - fully - cracked nut of estimating changes in
hurricane frequency and intensity in a warming climate, Gabe and his colleagues ended up
with a
modeling system
with seasonal skill in regional
hurricane prediction.
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We already saw the
Hurricane SC, but we were still hoping for word of an R - Spec
model with the V8 from the Genesis sedan.
If one examines our
model's control simulations for the 1982 - 2006 period, which show a trend towards increasing
hurricane activity over this period, and correlates this activity
with SST in the Main Development Region, and then tries to use this correlation to predict the 21st century behavior of the
model, it clearly doesn't work.
Higher resolution
models tended to get more
hurricane formation (perhaps unsurprisingly),
with quarter - degree
models parameterized using observed SSTs generally capturing historical
hurricane formation rates fairly accurately.
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With regard to the
hurricanes, how can the
models predict an increase and measure the rate of that increase if the resolution is insufficient or if the absolute SST is not taken into account?
There are various interpretations possible, e.g. a) The big increase in
hurricane power over the past 30 years or so may not have much to do
with global warming, or b) The
models are simply not faithfully reproducing what nature is doing.
'' a) The big increase in
hurricane power over the past 30 years or so may not have much to do
with global warming, or b) The
models are simply not faithfully reproducing what nature is doing.
The two maps below, produced for the study by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, are based on a climate
model comparing the production of strong
hurricanes in conditions mimicking the current climate (basically, average climate conditions from 1980 to 2006)
with hurricane production in conditions simulating those projected for the final two decades of the century.
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.
Global Green opened a New Orleans office shortly after
Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf and is collaborating
with environmentalists, community developers, the Recovery School District, urban organizations, and others to create the building blocks for a climate friendly,
model sustainable city for the 21st century.
Simultaneously, many of the
models use Monte Carlo methods to deal
with some other types of uncertainty than the ones we are talking about here (if there's a volcano, how many
hurricanes there are, and whatnot).
As the United States cleans up after one major
hurricane and braces for another, optimists note that all this destruction could yield one positive result: As we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the
models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips
with climate change.
For example, the two
models with the highest resolution (FLOR and HiFLOR) show increased extreme precipitation during the Atlantic
hurricane season in the U.S. southeast.
With respect to hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happen
With respect to
hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and
model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems
with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happen
with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global
models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense
hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happening.
The study will use a combination of complex computer
models to replicate past weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf, and use the results, along
with estimates of future production of man - made greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to predict Gulf
hurricane activity.
Using observations and a coupled Earth system
model, a new study shows that the decline of the Atlantic major
hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is associated
with a weakening of the AMOC.
In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, using both observations and a coupled Earth system
model (GFDL - ESM2G)
with a more realistic simulation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) structure, and thus reduced mean state biases in the North Atlantic, the authors show that the decline of the Atlantic major
hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is associated
with a weakening of the AMOC directly observed from the RAPID program.
For problems
with coherent features, such as
hurricanes, thunderstorms, firelines, squall lines, and rain fronts, there is a need to adjust the numerical
model state by deforming the state in space (its grid) as well as by correcting the state amplitudes additively.
[24] For
hurricane evacuation studies, a family of storms
with representative tracks for the region, and varying intensity, eye diameter, and speed, are
modeled to produce worst - case water heights for any tropical cyclone occurrence.
Here's why: One of our most accurate, highest - resolution
hurricane models — the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system — has been strongly hinting that nothing much will happen with 99L until late Saturday or early Sunday, at which point a period of rapid intensification could make the storm blossom quickly into a h
hurricane models — the
Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system — has been strongly hinting that nothing much will happen with 99L until late Saturday or early Sunday, at which point a period of rapid intensification could make the storm blossom quickly into a h
Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system — has been strongly hinting that nothing much will happen
with 99L until late Saturday or early Sunday, at which point a period of rapid intensification could make the storm blossom quickly into a
hurricanehurricane.
The
models are in better agreement when projecting changes in
hurricane precipitation — almost all existing studies project greater rainfall rates in
hurricanes in a warmer climate,
with projected increases of about 20 % averaged near the center of
hurricanes.
Often the domain we define for the
model may move along
with the
hurricane.
If you were to inject SO2 into the Northern Hemisphere, the
models show, you would reduce storm activity in the North Atlantic — probably because the injection would put the tropical jet stream on a collision course
with the Atlantic
hurricane main development region.
The Grinsted results are more in line
with most previous hurriane
modeling research, but for the sake of people living in areas subject to
hurricanes, we hope that Holland and Bruyère are correct about the
hurricane saturation level.
After testing the research
model, the
Hurricane Center is now moving forward with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF model that will be used during the 2012 hurrican
Hurricane Center is now moving forward
with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF
model that will be used during the 2012
hurricanehurricane season.
If you believe that government should intervene in markets to incentivize rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, you can justify your preference
with data, theories, and
models that predict increases in extreme weather events such as
hurricanes, droughts, and floods.
Data from an ocean glider equipped
with a host of scientific instrumentation and deployed ahead of the storm allowed researchers not only to see how sediment was being redistributed by the
hurricane as the storm unfolded but also to compare their real - life observations
with forecasts from mathematical
models.
However, a confident assessment of human influence on
hurricanes will require further studies using
models and observations,
with emphasis on distinguishing natural from human - induced changes in
hurricane activity through their influence on factors such as historical sea surface temperatures, wind shear, and atmospheric vertical stability.
An axisymmetric
hurricane model was constructed first, and then in 1973 experiments were made
with a three - dimensional
model.
Results from real - data simulations and forecasts strongly suggested the potential of improving
hurricane prediction
with a comprehensive three - dimensional
model.
Looking ahead, I collaborated
with Yale economist Robert Mendelsohn and his colleagues in estimating global
hurricane damage changes through the year 2100, based on
hurricanes «downscaled» from four climate
models.
This coupling of the atmosphere
with the ocean enables the
model to reproduce the cooling of the ocean surface beneath the
hurricane, which has an important impact on
hurricane intensity.
The current GFDL
hurricane model is a gridpoint
model that consists of three computational meshes which are nested together
with increasingly finer grid - point spacing in each mesh.
With regards to their statements that the global data can not be trusted since they don't agree with climate model results (which suggest a smaller increase in hurricane intensi
With regards to their statements that the global data can not be trusted since they don't agree
with climate model results (which suggest a smaller increase in hurricane intensi
with climate
model results (which suggest a smaller increase in
hurricane intensity).
Experiments
with climate
models at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and in Tokyo using the Earth Simulator
model have found that
with a doubling of CO2, there was an increase in intensity of
hurricanes and, simultaneously, an overall decrease in frequency.
Remember, for these «
hurricane models», you are trying to deal
with a much higher resolution (or more regional effects which are more weakly
modeled so far) than «climate
models» which deal
with easier - to -
model larger affects... ie.
With an active
hurricane season predicted, might be interesting for a sociological
model based on this premise to be overlaid onto a climatological
model.
Third, although the article ended
with a substantial discussion of responsible argumentation over the issue of
hurricanes and global warming in the mainstream press, as an apparent
model they pointed to their own public commentary:
Ocean observations and simulations from GFDL Earth System
Model (ESM2G) show that the recent decline in Atlantic major
hurricane frequency since 2005 is consistent
with a weakening of AMOC
Further investigation
with more advanced
models is needed for more confident projections of future
hurricane activity in a warming climate.
The GFDL
hurricane model (
with a grid spacing as fine as 9 km) is able to simulate the frequency, intensity, and structure of the more intense
hurricanes, such as category 3 - 5 storms, much more realistically than the regional (18 km grid)
model.
This
model, when forced
with observed sea surface temperatures and atmospheric conditions, can reproduce the observed rise in
hurricane counts between 1980 and 2012, along
with much of the interannual variability (Figure 5).
However, using the CMIP3 and CMIP5 multi-
model climate projections, the
hurricane model also projects that the lifetime maximum intensity of Atlantic
hurricanes will increase by about 5 % during the 21st century in general agreement
with previous studies.
GFDL researchers have developed a regional dynamical downscaling
model for Atlantic
hurricanes and tested it by comparing
with observed
hurricane activity since 1980.