Transcript My 2005 and 2006 summer internships

My 2005 and 2006
summer internships
Andy Hagen
Table of Contents
 2005 internship- Hurricane Research
Division- Miami, FL
-Worked for Dr. Chris Landsea on the
Atlantic Hurricane Reanalysis Project
(HURDAT)
 2006 internship- NWS Charleston, SC
-8 week volunteer internship at the
NWS office
 Got 3 credits of Meteo 496 for both
Hurricane Research
Division
 The Hurricane Research Division (HRD) is part
of the National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) which is part of the
Department of Commerce (DOC).
 HRD is located at the Atlantic Oceanographic
and Meteorological Laboratories building on
Virginia Key, FL, near downtown Miami.
 HRD contains some of the most prominent
hurricane researchers in the world, and they
collaborate closely with the National Hurricane
Center (NHC) located 10 miles away in Miami.
HRD continued…
 HRD accepts 10 to 15 student interns
each summer- it may be paid or unpaid
 HRD does research on all aspects of
hurricanes, including:
 Hurricane intensity change and storm
structure
 Hurricane track research
 Hurricane impact models
 Climate variation
My HRD research
 HURDAT is the official record of tropical storms
and hurricanes for the Atlantic basin from 1851
to present put together by John Hope in the
1970s.
 Dr. Landsea has been in charge of the
reanalysis of the database because more data
from old storms are now available from multiple
sources.
 I helped out with the 1921-39 hurricane seasons
 Made necessary changes to existing storms
 Looked for new storms not seen by John
Hope to add into the database (averaged
adding 1 storm per year).
2000 Hurricane Season
Open Atlantic
Ocean Differences
1911 Hurricane Season
NWS Charleston, SC
 Volunteered for 8 weeks at NWS office for Meteo
496 (internship) credit.
 If you want to work for NWS someday, it is a
great experience to spend a summer
volunteering at an NWS office.
My duties at NWS
 Launched the 00Z Rawinsonde/Weather Balloon
3 days per week- preflight preparations, launch,
and data processing
 During severe weather events, made calls to
emergency managers and spotters
 Wrote Local Storm Reports (LSRs)
 Wrote short term forecasts (NOWCasts)
 Performed daily climate summary
 Issued several other routine products
 Made sure everything on NOAA Weather Radio
was acting properly
Various Pictures
Contact
 If you would like to find out about volunteering
at the Hurricane Research Division in Miami
contact
 Howie Friedman at
[email protected]
or Frank Marks at
 [email protected]
 You can visit HRD’s website at
www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd