New Advanced Hurricane Model- HWRF
According to NOAA forecasters will now use a new Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast Model to predict the track and strength of storms this hurricane season. HWRF is a new computer model that will serve as the operational backbone for current and future hurricane track and intensity forecasts by meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The model utilizes highly advanced physics of the atmosphere, ocean and waves in one prediction system. It will provide an understanding of the science of tropical cyclone evolution. Its output gives meteorologists an analysis of the hurricane in three-dimensions from real-time airborne Doppler radar. It will make use of a wide variety of observations from satellites, data buoys, and hurricane hunter aircraft. No other hurricane model accesses this wide of a range of meteorological information.