September 3, 2010
Featured Faculty
2010
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Ryan Torn Collaborates
with NCAR to Develop Numerical Weather Models |
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In
early August, the National Hurricane Center designated
two numerical weather models as semi-operational, meaning that the output
from these models would be available to hurricane specialists to make their
operational forecasts. This process involved running these computer
models over many different hurricanes and many different times, and comparing
the model's track and intensity forecast against the best estimates of these
quantities. One of the two models is the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Hurricane Weather
Research and Forecasting (AHW) model. Over the past two hurricane
seasons, the initial conditions for that model have been generated using an
advanced technique that combines the information from observations and a
previous computer model forecast. The application of this technique to
hurricanes has been developed over the past three years by Ryan Torn,
Assistant Professor in Atmospheric
and Environmental Sciences in collaboration with scientists at
NCAR. Current forecasts from this system are available at: http://www.wrf-model.org/plots/realtime_hurricane4km.php |
http://www.albany.edu/cas/faculty_torn.shtml