Tag: Hurricanes

Functional forecasting: URI team uses Homeland Security exercises to evaluate storm decision support tool as part of Katrina lookback issue

URI’s CHAMP tool and expertise highlighted in series, “20 years after Hurricane Katrina: Lessons learned and implemented in flood risk management”

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URI oceanography professor’s computer modeling system to help keep R.I. officials ahead of strong storms

hurricane graphic

With hurricane season just starting, RI has a new storm modeling system. The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction (RI-CHAMP) system, developed by GSO’s Isaac Ginis.

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Tropical Storm Henri provides opportunity to test real-time storm modeling capabilities

Satellite image of a tropical storm approaching New England. THe storms is depicted in numerous color, ranging from blue at the outskirts to green, yelloe, orange, then red at the center.

Tropical Storm Henri was the perfect opportunity for researchers at GSO and the University of Rhode Island to test out the real-time storm modeling capabilities of the Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, and Modeling Prediction (RICHAMP) system.

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