摘要:

On October 4, 1995, over 2000 km of coast‐line stretching from southwest Florida to Louisiana was struck by storm‐generated waves as Hurricane Opal moved northward across the Gulf of Mexico toward landfall east of Pensacola Beach, Florida (Figure 1).Approximately 12 hours before landfall on October 4, Opal neared category 5 strength (measured on the Saffir/Simpson scale) with sustained wind speeds of over 65 m s−1. Storm surge levels of ∼5 m were estimated across the Northwest Florida shelf by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), resulting in the overwash of most of Santa Rosa Island, the most extensively affected section of coast in t

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/96EO00120

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Several new web pages from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will allow scientists and nonscientists alike to view graphic displays of weather and space weather data from around the world. Users can select a region of the Earth and a time period to see plots and data sets of everything from severe storms to aurorae.The National Climate Data Center has made available weather data from 8000 stations around the world, 160 satellite images of hurricanes from the GOES satellites, and technical reports about weather events such as the East Coast blizzard of 1996. The web address is http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO077i019p00182-02

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Faced with the current budget crisis, legislators and leaders of federal agencies are asking scientists to communicate why continued and even expanded funding of basic sciences is important to America. There have been repeated requests for oceanographers to communicate the importance of their science to the public at large and to legislators at both state and federal levels. It is often difficult, however, to find opportunities for public and legislative outreach.On March 17, 1996, Neal Lane, Director of the National Science Foundation, and Jerry Lewis (R.‐Calif.), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, which oversees NSF, participated in a dive off the coast of California in the Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) Alvin. The dive was part an ongoing effort to improve science and operational systems on Alvin and to ensure that the submersible systems are ready for the next science program. It followed a 3‐month shutdown of the facility imposed, in part, by budget cutbacks. The engineering dives are funded by the National Science Foundation, The U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the facility operator. In addition to testing out a new, integrated navigation software package for DSV operations, several vehicle systems and a new digital imaging system were tes

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/96EO00125

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

After predicting in November 1995 that the 1996 hurricane season would be less active than the typical year (Eos, December 12, 1995), William Gray and his colleagues from Colorado State University have revised their forecast. Plugging updated atmospheric data into their statistical model, the researchers are now predicting seven hurricanes—two of them intense (category 3, 4, or 5)—and 11 named storms for the summer and fall of 1996. Net tropical cyclone activity for the hurricane season, which lasts from June 1 to December 1, should be 105% of the 25‐year average, according to Gray.In November, Gray and Chris Landsea of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division predicted eight tropical storms and five hurricanes (two intense), less than the historical averages of 9.3 named storms and 5.7 hurricanes per season. The change in expectations is the result of new accounting for trends in temperature and barometric pressure in Africa and around the Atlantic

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/96EO00128

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY