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Lecture With Prof. Nick Shay - Oceanic Impacts During Hurricane Passage
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM
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DoubleTree Hotel Palm Beach Gardens
4431 PGA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
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Atmosphere-ocean models to predict hurricane intensity and structure
change are being used to issue forecasts to the public who increasingly
rely on the most advanced weather forecasting systems to prepare for
landfall. Early studies have emphasized the negative feedback between
hurricane and the ocean due to the cold wake. The extent of this sea
surface cooling is a function of wind-forced, upper ocean current
changes, which in turn cools and deepens the mixed layer by mixing warm
water in the upper layer with cooler and deeper water from the seasonal
thermocline.
Most of these early studies did not consider the relative importance
of deep warm ocean layers associated with Caribbean Current, Loop
Current, Florida Current, Gulf Stream and the warm eddy field. When
hurricanes encounter these more positive feedback areas (that surround
the State of Florida) they often intensify into severe status defined as
category 3 or above.
Learn about recent advances using satellite, aircraft and buoy data
to examine the oceanic role in intensity changes including rapid
intensity change during the trifecta in 2005 (e.g., Katrina, Rita and
Wilma) and the new innovative plans for future measurements and models.
This event is sponsored by the Alumni Club of Palm Beach County and the UM Alumni Association.
Special thanks to the DoubleTree Hotel for their generous support.
For more information on this event, please contact Adlar Garcia at
a.garcia29@miami.edu.