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

Measuring Hurricane Wind Speed from Space

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 201829 September 2021

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
Posted inNews

Gulf Stream Slowed as Hurricanes Struck

by Katherine Kornei 12 February 201820 July 2022

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.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

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.

Destroyed antenna and tide gauge
Posted inNews

Hurricanes Expose Vulnerabilities in Puerto Rico Seismic Network

by JoAnna Wendel 12 December 20176 June 2022

Could overreliance on cell networks to transmit data leave instruments in the dark after the next storm hits?

Hurricane Maria bears down on Dominica
Posted inNews

Unprecedented Hurricane Season Sees Widespread Damage

by JoAnna Wendel 22 September 2017

This hurricane season has broken multiple records already.

Hurricane Irma in Atlantic Ocean
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Hurricane Irma Tears Across Caribbean, Heads to South Florida

by JoAnna Wendel 7 September 2017

Florida residents prepare for potentially catastrophic winds and flooding.

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