AGU Highlights and Press Releases: Hurricanes
This collection of hurricane-related AGU Press Releases and Highlights from 1996 to 10 April, 2006 can be used to facilitate the use of news in science teaching.
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Estimating Hurricane-Force Winds (more info) To better measure hurricane-force winds, Horstmann et al. studied various types of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind retrieval schemes...
Hurricane intensification may be related to eyewall precipitation (more info) This resource is an abstract. The authors used weather surveillance radars along the United States coast to study the frequency of tall precipitation along hurricane eyewalls...
Background on the 1900 Galveston Hurricane (more info) A report on the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas is available on the AGU Web site.
Improving hurricane prediction (more info) A high resolution general circulation model dramatically advances scientists' ability to predict the course of hurricanes...
Oceanic carbon may help track hurricanes (more info) Satellite images of dissolved organic matter may help researchers approximate the mixing of surface-level ocean water during a hurricane...
Causes of 1995 Record Hurricane Season Now Understood (more info) Record sea warming in tropical Atlantic is thought to be main environmental influence of the exceptional 1995 hurricane season...
