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hurricanes, typhoons, & cyclones

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Can Coastal Surface Currents Improve Hurricane Forecasts?

by Suzana Camargo 18 October 201811 January 2023

An idealized model explores whether hurricane intensity forecasts could potentially be improved by incorporating coastal surface currents data.

Instruments at the SJG observatory in Cayey, Puerto Rico, survived Hurricane Maria and recorded the event.
Posted inScience Updates

Seismic Sensors Record a Hurricane’s Roar

by D. C. Wilson, P. Davis, C. Ebeling, C. R. Hutt and K. Hafner 3 August 201824 February 2023

Newly installed infrasound sensors at a Global Seismographic Network station on Puerto Rico recorded the sounds of Hurricane Maria passing overhead.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Tides and Waves Interact to Cause Hurricanes in Near-Space

by A. Rodger 23 May 201811 May 2022

The interaction of tides and waves generated in the lower atmosphere can cause the mean zonal wind speed in the lower ionosphere to oscillate equivalent to a category 1 hurricane at Earth’s surface.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Hurricanes and the Sea: It Takes Two to Tango

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas and Lei Zhou 10 May 201816 December 2021

A new special issue of JGR: Oceans reveals the rich relationship between the ocean and tropical cyclones.

Natural color image of Hurricane Harvey captured by MODIS on 24 August 2017.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Improving Tropical Cyclone Predictions in the Gulf of Mexico

by Terri Cook 3 May 201819 October 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s newest High Resolution Atmospheric Model captures the influence of intraseasonal oscillations on tropical cyclone activity.

Researchers trace the impact of severe storms through tree ring growth patterns in coastal forests
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Impact of Hurricanes and Nor’easters on Coastal Forests

by S. Witman 3 April 201827 October 2022

Scientists trace severe storms’ effects through tree ring growth patterns.

Researchers test a new technique to measure hurricane wind speed from space.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Measuring Hurricane Wind Speed from Space

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 1 March 201825 July 2022

A new technique based on GPS signals could provide better wind speed measurements during hurricanes and cyclones.

View from the International Space Station of lightning in Tropical Cyclone Bansi as it travels over the Indian Ocean in 2015.
Posted inScience Updates

Monitoring Tropical Cyclones with Lightning and Satellite Data

by N. N. Solorzano, J. N. Thomas and C. Bracy 19 February 201831 March 2023

A new storm-following tool continually watches for lightning over the open ocean. Combined with satellite microwave data, the new real-time observations will improve forecasts of tropical cyclones.

Gulf Stream brightness temperature from NASA
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Gulf Stream Slowed as Hurricanes Struck

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 12 February 201825 March 2024

Hurricanes Jose and Maria temporarily decelerated this powerful ocean current’s flow last year, according to data from an ocean glider that rode the stream between Florida and Massachusetts.

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New Estimates of Ozone Transport in Extratropical Cyclones

by William J. Randel 26 January 201829 March 2022

Cross-tropopause ozone transport in midlatitude cyclones, coincident with dry air intrusions, is derived from satellite and reanalysis data organized in cyclone-centric coordinates.

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