Sentences with phrase «improved hurricane track»

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

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There are the obvious ways: building and constantly improving the infrastructure necessary to predict hurricanes and other extreme weather, collecting images of disasters to guide emergency response workers, and tracking sea level changes around the world that affect coastlines and the Navy.

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

In the 25 years since Hurricane Andrew devastated southeastern Florida, the 3 - day track forecast for hurricanes has improved by 65 percent, she said.

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

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which began in 2009, is an effort to improve the service's ability to forecast hurricane tracks and intensity further inHurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which began in 2009, is an effort to improve the service's ability to forecast hurricane tracks and intensity further inhurricane tracks and intensity further in advance.

That data, scientists said at the Nov. 10 briefing, can be used to improve hurricane forecasting by providing more data and in a more timely manner than possible with other satellites or hurricane - tracking aircraft.

Since becoming operational in 1995, the GFDL hurricane model has played a major role in improving hurricane prediction, resulting in a significant reduction in track forecast error.

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.

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.

By deriving detailed meaning and clarity from new instrument technologies, we have improved weather forecasting, severe storm tracking for hurricanes and understanding of the Earth's climate and advanced meteorological research.