Novel model to better understand the nature of hurricane landfalls enhances predictions and public safety

Dr. Xiaomin Chen, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, has published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that offers a new model capable of resolving turbulence and eddies within hurricanes as they transition from water to land. The innovation provides a way to quantify the uncertainty of 10-meter wind estimates above the surface derived from different observation-based approaches for the first time.