Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria - Part 1
Offered By: AGU via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Attend a 45-minute press conference featuring leading researchers discussing groundbreaking observations, forecasts, and studies of the 2017 U.S. landfalling hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Explore new discoveries, novel technologies in hurricane science, and the implications of recent research presented by experts from prestigious institutions. Gain insights into rainfall studies, supercell storms, seasonal variability, hurricane outlooks, sea surface temperatures, urban environments, GPS networks, and attribution studies. Learn about the unprecedented ways these hurricanes were observed and analyzed, and understand the probability and impact of such extreme weather events.
Syllabus
Introduction
Harvey
Rainfall
Study Results
Questions
Supercell storms
Rain gauges
Irma
Maria
Clusters
We are all sinners
Seasonal variability
Hurricane outlooks
How much water fell
Rainfall total
Sea surface temperature
Sea surface temperature in Gulf
Heat loss in Gulf
Urban Environments
GPS Network
Detection Attribution
Why do these studies
What is the probability of the event
The attribution studies
Break
Taught by
AGU
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