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	Favorite Links: Hurricanes and Severe WX

Posted by: atmoaggie, 10:47 PM GMT on May 11, 2009

-----------CYCLOGENESIS MODELING AND MONITORING------------------------------

MJO Last 40 days and forecast for the next 15

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RSMAS OHC

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CPC Observational 850 mb convergence at 6-hour intervals for the last 24

(Click for CPC Hurricane Potential Site)
CIRA Statistical Cyclogenesis http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/TCFP/atlantic.html
Bob Hart/FSU Model Page http://moe.met.fsu.edu/tcgengifs/

Dry layers

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Maue's fine work (click for the page)

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Shear Forecast valid 48 hours from most recent model run

NHC 48 Hour Potential

-----------STORM MONITORING----------------------------------

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National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
NHC Satellite Page (floaters here) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml
HRD H*Wind Analysis http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/wind.html
NHC Aircraft Reconnaissance Page http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/reconlist.shtml
TropicalAtlantic Page (including dropsonde decoder) http://tropicalatlantic.com/home/
TropicalAtlantic mirror (just in case) http://www.hhrecon.com/recon/
CIMMS TC Page http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/
Active Storm QuikScat Page http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/qscat_storm.pl
Jeff Masters blog http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
CIRA RealTime Tropical Cyclones http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/
CIRA Tropical RAMSDIS http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/tropical.asp
NRL Tropical Cyclone Page http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html
High-Res JHU AVHRR SST http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/index.html
Wyoming obs page (including global sounding plots) http://weather.uwyo.edu/
College of DuPage obs/analysis page (including Caribbean sounding plots) http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/
Atlantic Tropical Weather Center (links)(including Caribbean surface plots) http://www.atwc.org/
OSU surface ob/IR overlay plotshttp://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/surface/

Mid-level steering with IR overlay

(Click for PSU Tropical E-Wall)
GoM Buoys

Lightning

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NCEP GFS NW Atlantic http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/index_carib.shtml
NCEP N America http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/
ECMWF links from Various Sources http://models-ecmwf.blogspot.com/ (Thanks Futuremet!)
FSU HYCOM/WRF Model Page http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~hwinter/hycomtc/
RTOFS Product View http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/viewer.shtml?
Vigh's Hurricane Spaghetti Plots http://euler.atmos.colostate.edu/~vigh/guidance/
K Emanuel's TC Page http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/storm.html

-----------LOCAL LA DATA-------------------------------------

(Click for NWS LIX radar)
LSU Hurricane Center http://hurricane.lsu.edu/
LSU WAVCIS http://wavcis.csi.lsu.edu/
New Orleans/Baton Rouge WFO http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/

-----------WATER LEVEL DATA----------------------------------

USACE RiverGauges.com http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/new/layout.cfm
USGS RealTime water levels http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt
NOS CO-OPS (tidesandcurrents) http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/

-----------OBSERVATIONAL DATA--------------------------------

NWS Precip Daily/Hourly Analysis http://water.weather.gov/
Links to all coastal doppler radars (global) http://hurricanewarning1.com/radar.html
NDBC http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
Adriansweather http://www.adriansweather.com/tropicalweatherlinks.htm

-----------ARCHIVAL DATA-------------------------------------

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(Click for NHC Climatology page)

NCDC Hurricanes http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/hurricanes.html
NHC Archives http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml
ATCF FTP site (best track files) ftp://ftp.tpc.ncep.noaa.gov/atcf/
NHC Reconnaissance Data Archives http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/dropsonde.html

-----------SEVERE WX MONITORING-------------------------------

Severe Warnings from College of Du Page http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/ (Thanks Patrap!)

SPC Day One Outlook with Activity

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Radar

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Weatherbug Lightning

Todays Storm Reports

(Click for the full storm report SPC page)

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A wee bit of fun:
NASA Hurricane site (neat pics, but usually not realtime) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/main/index.html
A little El Nino perspecitve:

NASA's CloudSat Captures a Sideways Look a Fading TS Lana

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Updated: 5:27 AM GMT on October 16, 2009

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	TC surge prediction and measurements

Posted by: atmoaggie, 2:17 PM GMT on September 01, 2008

I know...I'll start putting a few interesting tidbits here as I come across them for work.Storm surge measurements/modeling:for Gustav:"On August 29–31, 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a mobile monitoring network consisting of 124 pressure transducers (sensors) (figs. 1, 2) at 80 sites over an area of about 4,200 square miles to record the timing, extent, and magnitude of inland hurricane storm surge and coastal flooding generated by Hurricane Gus...

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Updated: 10:48 PM GMT on May 11, 2009

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	Test blog

Posted by: atmoaggie, 5:09 PM GMT on August 31, 2008

Never submitted my own, here. So this is a test in preparation for updates from Slidell, LA before, during, and after Gustav.I will be riding it out in my office, in the basement of a Cold War-era bunker. This location lost only city water during and after Katrina.I will have more updates later tonight or tomorrow morning.

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