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NOAA Research of Hurricane Isabel Reveals Intensity Clues
Source: Posted: 11-01-2006 at 12:00:18
| While over the open western Atlantic Ocean during the 2003 hurricane season and before striking the U.S. East Coast, powerful Hurricane Isabel reached Category 5 strength and afforded NOAA researchers and their university partners the opportunity to collect a wealth of data. With this greater insight, researchers are able to better understand how the lower portion of a hurricane's eye and small circulations within the eyewall combine to influence intensity and sometimes lead to extreme wind speeds. "Hurricane Isabel shared some of its secrets with us," said Sim Aberson, a meteorologist at the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Fla. "We were able to directly observe some unusual aspects of its structure and to use the data to gain understanding about how they contributed to the hurricane's extreme intensity." |
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