Other Administration

Guidance and data was provided to Rouzbeh Nazari from CREST at City University of New York for a research project on long term variations in Atlantic hurricane activity. Rouzbeh is a graduate student working with Drs. Khanbilvardi and Mahani. The emphasis of the project is to determine the role of the variability in the formation locations of tropical cyclones on the increase in Atlantic hurricanes that has been observed since 1970. The hypothesis is that because of the large sea surface temperature (SST) variations in the Atlantic, changes in locations can be more important than the basin-wide SST increases. The basin-wide SST increase over the past 35 years is about 1 o C, compared with an SST variation of about 4 o C from the eastern to the western side of the Atlantic. (M. DeMaria)

All NOAA RAMMB employees successfully completed the required NOAA on-line security training. (M. DeMaria)

D. Lindsey attended the ICAPOP meeting in Camp Springs , MD. He will be assuming the co-chair position on the committee when Gary Ellrod retires in March. (D. Lindsey)

Due to the Solar House II Building getting condemned, the IT group for the CIRA that works closely with the NOAA group had to vacate the office space in the Solar House building. H. Gosden coordinated the personnel moves with the facilities to accomplish a smooth transition. Due to the small space allotted to the IT personnel, many of the equipment needs to moved to various storage places. This task was coordinated with the facilities as well. (H. Gosden)

Input was provided for all CIRA IT staff supporting RAMMB. (D. Molenar)

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