SEMINAR: NHC Seminar - Aug 20 - Jeff Halverson/Michael Goodman

[Chris.Landsea@noaa.gov]

Hi folks,

There will be a seminar here at NHC tomorrow (Friday):

Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) 
Hurricane Field Experiment (Abstract below)
 
Jeff Halverson / UMBC and Michael Goodman / NASA

2:30-3:30pm (Bagels/Cream Cheese and Coffee - 2:15pm)
Friday, Aug. 20th
NHC Seminar Room

All are welcome to attend.

best regards,
chris
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Chris Landsea
Science and Operations Officer
NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center
11691 S.W. 17th Street
Miami, Florida 33165-2149
Chris.Landsea@noaa.gov P:305-229-4446 F:305-553-1901
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"A hundred-knot hurricane's about the prettiest there is.  You get
 stronger than that, the water's all white.  You get below eighty
 knots, the streaks and ripples and blowing spray are less spectacular.
 But at a hundred knots, the sea has this kind of turquoise color and
 it's layered.  There's a filigree of foam on the surface, long streaks
 of glowing foam with long streaks of greenish bubbles beneath that,
 and between the disturbances there's a deep navy blue.  Anybody that's
 seen it wants to see it again."
 ----- Hugh Willoughby in _Inside the Hurricane_ by Pete Davies





Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Hurricane Field 
Experiment
 
Jeff Halverson / UMBC and Michael Goodman / NASA 

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment is a 
NASA Earth science field experiment that is being conducted to better 
understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. 
NASA is using the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft, and the Global 
Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS) configured with a suite of in situ 
and remote sensing instruments that are observing and characterizing 
the lifecycle of hurricanes. The prospect of using a high-altitude 
unmanned aircraft for hurricane surveillance, and the emergence of new 
remote sensing technologies offer new research tools that need to be 
explored and validated.
 
The GRIP deployment is 15 August – 30 September 2010 with bases in Ft. 
Lauderdale, FL for the DC-8, at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, 
TX for the WB-57, and at NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, CA for 
the Global Hawk.  This campaign is capitalizing on a number of ground 
networks, airborne science platforms (both manned and unmanned), and 
space-based assets. 
 
The seminar will describe the GRIP field experiment, it objectives and 
provide an overview of the Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM).  The Real 
Time Mission Monitor is a visualization and information system that 
fuses multiple Earth science data sources, to enable real time 
decision-making for airborne and ground validation experiments.  
Developed at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, RTMM is a 
situational awareness, decision-support system that integrates 
satellite imagery, radar, surface and airborne instrument data sets, 
model output parameters, lightning location observations, aircraft 
navigation data, soundings, and other applicable Earth science data 
sets. 



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