A Distributed Real-time Hurricane Wind Analysis System


Mark Powell, Sonia Otero, Nirva Morisseau-Leroy, and Nicholas Carrasco
Hurricane Research Division, AOML

NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, located at AOML, developed a JAVA-based tool (H*WIND) for global monitoring of tropical cyclones. H*WIND allows a scientist to graphically interact with wind measurements collected from air-, space-, ship-, buoy-, and land-based observation platforms. The observations are dynamically retrieved from an Oracle object-relational database while the scientist analyzes the wind field of the storm. Realtime analyses of hurricanes are then provided to hurricane forecasters as guidance for determining the maximum wind speed and the extent of damaging winds. The National Hurricane Center has listed H*Wind as the #1 priority for transition from research to operations. A web-based version of H*Wind is proposed for future development. Hurricane wind analyses are available on the web at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/wind.html.
The presentation will include a live demonstration of H*Wind.

BIO - Mark Powell and associates Atmospheric Scientist specializing in Hurricane wind field studies. Co-investigator affiliations are with the NOAA-Univ. Miami Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Auditorium - Paper Tuesday - 11:10 - 11:40 A.M.