On Monday, August 28th, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1) airdropped 18 buoys in the path of Hurricane Idalia. The buoys were associated with the Task 3A teams of the NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts project: Spotter buoys (Sofar Ocean), microSWIFTs (University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory), and A-DWSDs (Lagrangian Drifter Laboratory). The airdrop deployment, which is the first of up to three planned for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, enabled key observations of Hurricane Idalia as it made landfall on Wednesday, August 30th. These observations will be used to validate and improve forecasts of landfalling hurricanes, as well as further fundamental research of air-sea interactions during extreme events.
Above, we show the drift track for each buoy, colored by observed significant wave height, from August 28th to September 1st.
At the Seattle All-hands meeting in November 2023, the Deltares Modelling Team presented their results on the 2023 Hurricane Season.
Roland Romeiser and Hans Graber of the University of Miami presented NHCI radargrammetry project results at the TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Science Team Meeting in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
As part of the NHCI response to Hurricane Lee, researchers in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1) airdropped wave buoys from a P3 aircraft on Thursday, September 14th, 2023.
