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New Model Will Help NOAA Forecasters Study the Eyewall of Hurricanes This Season

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2012

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Eyewall of Hurricane Katrina.

Eyewall of Hurricane Katrina taken on Aug. 28, 2005, as seen from a NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft before the storm made landfall on the US Gulf Coast. Download here. (Credit: NOAA)

When the first hurricane emerges from the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico this season, NOAA will use a new statistical model to help predict the start of the “eyewall replacement cycle,” a key indicator that a storm’s…

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