Juneau Hollings Scholar Presentations: Winds and Atmospheric Rivers

Event Type: Webinars and Virtual Events

When: 29 July 2020

Where: Online: 11:00 am AKDT, 3:00 pm EDT

Summary

The Juneau National Weather Service Forecast office remotely hosted two NOAA Hollings Scholars during the summer of 2020. This webinar will cover the work of those two scholars.

Speaker: Brennan Dettmann – Using R and python to analyze the relationship between sustained wind speed, wind direction, and wind gust data from 97 observation sites throughout Southeast Alaska to improve wind gust forecasts.

Speaker: Leanne Blind-Doskocil – Studying the strength of atmospheric river events in southeast Alaska based on integrated vapor transport values, duration of each event, optimal transport direction, and precipitation amounts.