Sentences with phrase «of hurricane track»

According to NOAA, the specific goals of the HFIP are to reduce the average errors of both hurricane track and intensity forecasts by 20 % within five years and 50 % in 10 years, with a forecast period out to seven days.

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.

Over the past 20 years, significant advances have been made in the science of hurricane track forecasting.

The HFIP aims to cut the average errors of hurricane track and intensity forecasts by 20 percent within five years and by 50 percent by 2019, within a seven - day forecast period.

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.

Living in Florida for the better part of twenty years now I can tell you I have watched the capability of hurricane tracking with obvious interest.

Precise predictions of hurricane tracks and intensity; heavy rain; severe storms; fire weather; air quality and chemistry, and climate change address societal challenges that include disaster mitigation, economic decision making, health concerns, travel and workplace safety, long range planning, and day to day decisions (an umbrella or a heavy coat, for example).

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In the US, some might speculate that the turning of hurricane tracks like Sandy could also result from this effect in addition to more frequent droughts.

Springer, «Looks just like a spaghetti plot of hurricane tracks predicted from different models to me and those typically take the average as the most likely trajectory.»

Since 1995, the GFDL Operational Hurricane Forecast Model has been used by the National Weather Service and has consistently been one of the top - performing models for the prediction of hurricane tracks.

Click here to view many graphics and visualizations of hurricane tracks and activity from climate model results and data at GFDL.

Not exact matches

By Saturday up to 200 employees drafted from merchandising, logistics, supply chain and human resources teams were marshaling people and goods from Home Depot's buzzing five - room command center filled with monitors tracking the storm and maps of the hurricane region pasted on walls.

Applications of the technology include catching illegal fishing, tracking hurricanes and typhoons, detecting forest fires and monitoring volcanoes as soon as they begin.

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.

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

The best historical analogue for a hurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mhurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mHurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds.

Let Cardinal Dolan move the track of the currently sought Florida bound hurricane - then I would be impressed.

Maria's track could see it pass through many of the Caribbean islands already coping with the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has generated a forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin that closely follows the path Superstorm Sandy took, raising a New York City strike higher on the list of possibilities.

The National Hurricane Center model has the eye of Hurricane Sandy tracking across the Pennsylvania / New York border in a northerly direction in the 24 hours from 8 am Wednesday to 8 am Thursday.

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.

The track sometimes takes the birds into the path of hurricanes, a new study finds.

The loss of Earth - monitoring satellites impairs scientists» ability to track hurricanes — and they are predicting a lot of them this year

Some birds are especially adept: Scientists at the College of William & Mary Center for Conservation Biology tracked a migratory shorebird, a whimbrel, as it flew through Hurricane Irene in 2011.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

About 8 years ago, geographer Kam - biu Liu of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge realized that finding such layers of storm - driven sand in old sediments offered a way to track hurricanes that came ashore thousands of years ago.

«The evidence seems strong» for a link between the NAO and preferred hurricane tracks, says climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).

National Hurricane Center is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes.

An increase in the width of the tropics could increase the area affected by tropical storms (hurricanes), or could change climatological tropical cyclone development regions and tracks.

So the occasional Northeast Pacific hurricane that does track back toward the U.S. encounters the cooler waters of the Pacific, which can quickly reduce the storm's strength.»

Kohut is part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System, which has been using satellite imagery to track the aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy.

European and U.S. models frequently make different predictions about weather and storm tracks, including that of Hurricane Joaquin.

More than 13 years in the making, the center is designed to be the U.S. government's nerve center for a range of activities, including predicting hurricane tracks and forecasting ocean currents.

«Many possible tracks bring the worst of a large, powerful hurricane over or near the Keys and up the peninsula over the weekend,» he wrote in a Facebook message.

The hurricane centre said the storm appears to be on track to pass east of Florida through the Bahamas, but it is too soon to predict with certainty whether it will threaten any spot on the US east coast.

To date, the team has been able to make measurable improvements in predicting the track of a hurricane.

Satellites from NASA and NOAA have been tracking and analyzing powerful Hurricane Matthew since its birth just east of the Leeward Islands on Sept. 28.

In this article, we'll explore the lifecycle and anatomy of a hurricane, as well as the methods we use to classify and track these ultimate storm systems as they hurtle across the globe.

10 years of cyclone track data from the National Hurricane Center and the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center

But even after Irma completes its reign of terror, another hurricane (Jose) is picking up speed in the Atlantic, and there are fears that it will track a similar path to Irma, devastating already heavily damaged island nations.

However, I've been feeling off - track lately with the impact of Hurricane Sandy still fresh and palpable in and around New York City.

You might appoint a «hurricane tracking team» or you might assign individual students or small groups to track some of the following sites for hurricane information.

Invite students to track the hurricane for themselves on their own copies of a U.S. map.

Hurricane: Storm Science Learn how storms happen, all about tracking storms, how to make a weather station, and more on this site from (appropriately) the Miami Museum of Science.

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As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

The increase has been tracked back to Hurricane Katrina when hundreds of dogs were brought to shelters here, likely bringing the disease with them.