Sentences with phrase «in hurricane prediction»

To mark the anniversary and assess progress in hurricane prediction, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami assembled a panel of scientists who were active then and now.

Lou St. Laurent at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, who uses identical technology in his own work, says the gliders will help fill a hole in hurricane prediction science.

Not exact matches

In fact, the European model's predictions for Hurricane Irma were closer to the actual path than other models.

With flooding continuing in Houston, plus more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage have ranged as high as $ 100 billion, and Wall Street and Washington are braced for the repercussions of the costliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

Predictions about drought and hurricanes becoming more frequent are seen as less certain now than they were thought to be in 2007

«We can now use our data from Manhattan after Super Storm Sandy to make predictions about how diversity may change in Houston after Hurricane Harvey and in the urban centers of Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, among other areas affected by these storms.»

What's more, whereas many models tend to overestimate the intensity of hurricanes in their predictions, theirs was a much closer match to historical observations, the researchers report online in Geophysical Research Letters.

NOAA evaluates the accuracy of its seasonal forecasts each year, with the aim of seeing the number of storms fall in the given ranges at least 70 percent of the time, which they do consistently, Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said.

Seeing himself as a strict empiricist whose hurricane predictions are based on decades of «crunching huge piles of data,» Gray is convinced that the atmosphere is too complicated to be captured in computer simulations, at one point fulminating that «any experienced meteorologist that believes in a climate model of any type should have their head examined.»

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

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.

Already calling for a slow hurricane season, Phil Klotzbach and William Gray on Tuesday revised their prediction downward to include only two hurricanes in eight named storms.

Look for the Climate Prediction Center's in - depth assessment on its Hurricane webpage in early 2104.

Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding questions about the August lull in Atlantic hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.

While New Yorkers boarded up windows and stockpiled canned vegetables in preparation for Hurricane Irene, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is faced with an even more fraught dilemma: Predictions of this storm stem not from the weather report, but from within his own mind.

«Max Mayfield, director of the Tropical Prediction Center at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., also heightened awareness of the tropical multi-decadal signal when testifying at a congressional hearing earlier this year (Sept. 20, 2005).

However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by events such as rapid arctic melting), I don't expect 100 % certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global warming.

That's an excerpt from the latest extended forecast from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the superstorm that nearly all computer simulations see developing in a few days as the remains of Hurricane Sandy — which has already killed at least 21 people in the Caribbean — collide over the East Coast with a cold front sweeping in from the west.

Furthermore, the fact is (as shown in Figure 1) that hurricane intensity has increased in recent decades as SST has risen (at least in the North Atlantic for which trends are most reliable) and this prediction is based on fairly fundamental and robust thermodynamic arguments explored by Emanuel and others for decades now.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in May projected between a dozen and 16 named storms, including 2 to 5 major hurricanes (those above Category 3 on the Saffir - Simpson scale of storm strength).

All in all the science of hurricanes does appear to be much more fun and interesting than the average climate change issue, as there is a debate, a «fight» between different hypothesis, predictions compared to near - future observations, and all that does not always get pre-eminence in the exchanges about models.

Note to reporters: a scientist's willingness to make predictions of the future is an indication of the current level of understanding of the science; for example Hansen et al predicted that Pinatubo's eruption in 1991 would produce a significant aerosol cooling effect, and they were right; but would anyone be willing to predict that La Nina (assuming conditions set in) will result in a record hurricane season this fall?

No matter the predictions, people who live in a hurricane's path «are still going to have to do the same things,» Foskit said.

The US National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center comments in its August summary that «thus far in 2005, there have been 12 named storms and four hurricanes.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

Namely long term (as in 10 days) weather prediction, and more specifically hurricane tracking.

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As an excellent example of how vulnerability could be assessed without using multi-decadal regional climate predictions (in this case for landfalling hurricanes), but using the historical record, I refer you to the paper

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His Climategate fame is derived from his concern about a «travesty» that «we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment,» in addition to his other failed predictions such as future hurricane horrors while administering discipline as one of the scientific journal brown shirts.

James Murphy, head of climate prediction at the Met Office, agreed and linked the NAO to Indian monsoons, Atlantic hurricanes and sea ice in the Arctic.

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

Imagine knowing how your city or state will cope with drier and warmer conditions over the next 30 years; imagine getting a tornado warning an hour in advance providing an opportunity to get your family properly sheltered; imagine being able to evacuate only those coastal residents that will be directly impacted by a hurricane and not unnecessarily clearing hundreds of miles of the coast; imagine being able to tell a fire incident manager where the fire front will be in 6 hrs; imagine airline routing system that knows where a squall line will be in 12 hrs and the resulting efficiency in airport acceptance rates; or imagine air quality predictions that would allow the time for special precautions to be taken for those at risk.

«We have groups doing numerical weather prediction, hurricanes, climate, oceans, but in the international arena, countries have whole institutions doing the functions of these individual groups,» said Dr. Ronald J. Stouffer, who designs and runs climate models at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., a top Commerce Department center for weather and climate work.

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There are other factors in determining hurricane frequency, the prediction earlier this year for the North Atlantic was a low count due to developing El Nino conditions and the resulting increased wind shear.

(4) Based on hysterical and false predictions from warmists, insurance companies increased their rates for hurricane insurance (wind, flood) in Florida over the past 4 years and made a bundle.

In addition to confirming the models» predictions, the finding indicates that perhaps unsurprisingly, Hurricane Sandy was seriously stirring up the ocean floor along her path.

Though these statistical predictions can not portend when any of the storms will form or where they will go, Klotzbach, Gray and colleagues calculate an 81 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast in 2006.

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.

RE: 4th Error -RCB- Poses an objection to the non-scientific term catastrophic [NOTE: Scientific «consensus» is often being used & / or implied in standard climate - change discourse - Yet Consensus is a Political Term - NOT a Scientific Term]- HOWEVER - When Jim Hansen, the IPCC & Al Gore, et - al - go from predicting 450 — 500 ppm CO2 to 800 — 1000ppm by the end of the 21st century -LCB- said to the be highest atmospheric CO2 content in 20 — 30 Million YRS -RCB-; — & estimates for aver global temps by 21st century's end go from 2 * C to 6 * C to 10 * C; — & increased sea level estimates go from 10 - 20 cm to 50 - 60 cm to 1M — 2M -LCB- which would totally submerge the Maldives & partially so Bangladesh -RCB-; — predictions of the total melting of the Himalayan Ice caps by 2050, near total melting of Greenland's ice sheet & partial melting of Antarctica's ice sheet before the 21st century's end; — massive crop failures; — more intense & frequent hurricane -LCB- ala Katrina -RCB- for much longer seasonal durations, etc, etc, etc... — IMO That's Sounds pretty damned CATASTROPHIC to ME!

Among those in attendance was Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University who now does much of the research for Bill Gray's seasonal hurricane predictions, the oldest and best - known annual forecast.

But with the state of flux that climate change science seems to be in when it comes to hurricane frequency and intensity predictions, is there really a solid basis yet for doing this?

However, the latest upgrades to the GFDL hurricane model have led to significant improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts by better representing the atmospheric and oceanic physical processes critical for intensity prediction.

The GFDL hurricane prediction system originated as a research model in the 1970s.

The GFDL / URI fully - coupled hurricane - ocean prediction system became operational in 2001.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

Their findings might help improve predictions of a hurricane's power in certain regions.