Sentences with phrase «improve hurricane intensity»

Not exact matches

Over the past two decades, forecasters have improved their ability to predict where hurricanes will go, but improvements in forecasting a hurricane's intensity have proved elusive.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

Their data will be used in computer models to improve weather forecasts, including hurricane tracks and intensities, severe thunderstorms and floods.

Another model replaces the retiring Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Hurricane Model after 22 years, and it also improves track and intensity forecasts.

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Recent advances have improved NOAA's intensity forecasts by 20 percent, but there are so many variables influencing the developing of a hurricane — from the energy they draw from the oceans to their interactions with the surrounding environment and their dynamic inner cores — that storms like Matthew befuddle many experts.

But last year, the team was able to improve the resolution on its hurricane model, which helped improve the intensity predictions.

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By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

Cost comparison of storm damage, comparing inaction, various intensities of geoengineering, and improving urban structures in cyclone and hurricane vulnerable areas.

Three - dimensional upper - air wind, temperature, and moisture profiles with high vertical and temporal resolution are key to improved prediction of hurricane track and intensity.

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which is currently underway, is intended to improve intensity forecasting among other parameters, said Knabb.

Frank Marks, head of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD), who flew into Andrew to assess its strength as it approached Florida, agreed that as track forecasts improve, intensity and structure have to become the focus of research.