26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Tuesday, 4 May 2004: 1:30 PM
The early days of the Dvorak Technique at the National Hurricane Center
Le Jardin Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Max Mayfield, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NHC, Miami, FL
Poster PDF (478.4 kB)
The application of satellite derived location and intensity estimates using the Dvorak Technique at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the 1970s and 1980s will be discussed. Examples of successes as well as limitations will be shown by one of the first Dvorak analysts at NHC.

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