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John Schroeder – Texas Tech UniversityMike Biggerstaff – Oklahoma University
Dan Cecil – University of Alabama-HuntsvilleKurt Gurley – University of Florida
Andrew Kennedy – Notre Dame UniversityMarc Levitan – Louisiana State UniversityForrest Masters – University of Florida
Mark Powell – NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research DivisionJosh Wurman – Center for Severe Weather Research
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IntroductionIntroduction• The US weather observing network is coarse and
prone to failure during natural disasters. This reduces the ability to monitor decaying weather conditions.
• As a result, researchers began conducting experiments at landfall in the late 1990s by deploying– Portable weather stations– Mobile Doppler radars – Surge/wave gauges
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Portable Weather StationsPortable Weather Stations
← Deployed < 30 minutes
Deployed < 3 minutes↓
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Mobile Doppler RadarsMobile Doppler Radars
Ka-, X- and C-Band Radars
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Surge and Wave SensorsSurge and Wave Sensors
↑ Just offshore (~10-15 m of water) ↑ Along the coast and inland ↑
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Field Deployment ProgramsField Deployment Programs
• Collective firsts (not exhaustive)– Mobile radar deployment during Fran (1995)– Tower deployments during Charley/Bonnie (1998)– Real-time data transfer during Isabel (2003)– Radar/tower co-deployment during Isabel (2003)– Offshore surge and wave measurements during Ernesto
(2006)
• With few exceptions, these programs have operated independently.
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Digital Hurricane ConsortiumDigital Hurricane Consortium• Our nation’s ability to characterize the severity of and
determine the appropriate response to a hurricane impact is based on how much and how quickly information can be interpreted, analyzed, and relayed.
Field Program DopplerRadars
≥ 10 mWind Obs.
< 10 mWind Obs.
Surge/WaveSensors
Center for Severe Weather Research 3 3 15 --Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (UF, CU, FIU) -- 6 -- --Louisiana State University -- 2 -- --Notre Dame University -- -- -- 24University of Oklahoma 2 -- -- --Texas Tech University 1 -- 24 --University of Alabama - Huntsville 1 2 2 --Subtotal 7 13 41 24Total 85 Observations
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Digital Hurricane ConsortiumDigital Hurricane Consortium
• Create an umbrella organization that provides:– an adaptable network of observing platforms that can
be delivered on demand to measure wind, surge and wave.
– “global” coordination at landfall– integrated real-time datasets
– a vehicle to attract national funding, while allowing individual programs to maintain their identity and meet their research deliverables
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Planned ActivitiesPlanned Activities• Meet with potential users to understand needs• Develop adaptable campaign strategies tailored to user
needs, storm characteristics, coastal geography, etc.• Enable real-time data transfer of integrated datasets
– Develop a common baseline of performance metrics, real-time QA/QC and standardization procedures
– Create dual-Doppler wind fields; standardized with tower measurements
• Conduct rapid and comprehensive damage documentation
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ImplicationsImplications• Real-time monitoring of weather conditions
• Aid NHC and NWS Weather Forecast Offices• Help provide answers to critical emergency
management questions• Provide real-time inputs to wind field analyses, loss
models, etc.
• Minimize the uncertainty in the time-varying wind, surge, and wave estimates• Forecasting and model verification• Helps define resiliency of the natural and build
environment, the value of mitigation efforts, etc.
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For more information contact: John Schroeder, Texas Tech UniversityForrest Masters, University of Florida
Thank your for your time and attention