Predicting Hurricane Sandy: Last year’s hurricane models were quite accurate in their predictions of the track o...

Predicting Hurricane Sandy

Predicting Hurricane Sandy: Last year’s hurricane models were quite accurate in their predictions of the track o...

In 2009, the U.S. National Weather Service set ambitious goals—to improve the accuracy of forecasts of hurricane tracks and intensity by 20 percent by 2014 and by 50 percent by 2019. Last year for the first time, in modeling Hurricane Irene, the National Weather Service was able to incorporate data from flying planes through the storm directly into the simulations of the storm’s progress. Adding that detailed data from inside the storm, and other advances, meant that the 48-hour forecast of Hurricane Irene was just as accurate as a 24-hour forecast had been a decade earlier. And the advance forecast of Hurricane Sandy, now heading for the east coast of the United States, should be even more accurate, thanks to a couple of advances in modeling that earlier this year moved from the research laboratories into operational use as part of the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS) . ...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/pre...

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