CHOOSE YOUR STORM

Winners

Distance Time Gap
IRMA 2017 4000 miles 293 hours +0.00 hours
MARIA 2017 4000 miles 337 hours +44 hours
DORIAN 2019 4000 miles 347 hours +54 hours
IAN 2022 (No finish) 2514 miles 204 hours NA hours
OLGA 2019(No finish) 1760 miles 54 hours NA hours

A Geostatistical Analysis

  • What governs the path of the storms?
  • What governs the speed of the storms?

Speed is only one component of velocity

s Θ Δx Δy

The Bermuda High

Credits:

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Images Lab

Animator: Susan Twardy (HTSI)

Scientist: David Adamec (NASA/GSFC)

Westerlies / Anti-Trade Winds

Credits:

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "atmospheric circulation".

Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Mar. 2019,

https://www.britannica.com/science/atmospheric-circulation. Accessed 2 October 2024.

Wrapping Up

Dorian 2019

  • Fun visualization of NOAA satellite imagery
  • Statistical modeling of storm movement
  • Some science behind movement dynamics: Bermuda High
  • Looking forward...

Thank you!

Credits:

  • NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 16 was accessed September, 2024 from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes
  • A portion of this work used code generously provided by Brian Blaylock's GOES-2-go python package (https://github.com/blaylockbk/goes2go)
  • R version 4.4.0
  • Python version 3.11
  • Select credits for geospatial analysis
    • R packages: {mgcv}, {sf}, {fields}
    • Python packages: {cartopy}, {matplotlib}, {basemap}, {geopandas}, {netcdf4}
  • Image frames compiled with `imagemagick` from R
  • Video frames composed with `ffmpeg`
  • Sprite-sheets used:
    • https://www.deviantart.com/johnnytzut96/art/Oasis-in-Desert-TileSet-and-Sprite-Sheet-1011976003/ Credit: JohnnyTzut96
    • https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/113678/ Credit: Mister Mike
  • Slides presented using reveal.js Credit: Hakim El Hattab et al.

Appendix