11-04-2012, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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http://www.infowars.com/hurricane-ae...-modification/
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?While OAR recognizes that weather modification, in general, is occurring through the funding of private enterprises, NOAA does not support research that entails efforts to modify hurricanes,? Spinrad wrote.
He then went on to list all the reasons Project Stormfury was discontinued, including the inability to separate the difference in hurricane behavior when human intervention is present versus nature?s inherent unpredictability overall. Spinrad also noted that any collaboration with DHS must occur within NOAA?s mission (which Spinrad and NOAA obviously felt HAMP did not do).
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
"In less than two weeks, NASA scientists will begin their quest for the holy grail of hurricane research.
The exact conditions required to kickstart a tropical depression into a hurricane largely remain a mystery. Though scientists know many of the ingredients needed, it is unclear what processes ultimately drive depressions to form into the intense, spinning storms that lash the U.S. coasts each summer.
"Hurricane formation and intensification is really the ?holy grail' of this field," said Ed Zipser, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Utah and one of three program scientists helping to lead the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment this summer. "
"?We want to see storms that become hurricanes, and we want to see some that don?t become hurricanes, so we can compare the data. The same is true for hurricane intensification.? ~ GRIP Project Manager Marilyn Vasques"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...-quest_prt.htm |
You took those quotes out of context. They are talking about research into why and how hurricanes form and rapidly intensify. They are not talking about forming and intensifying hurricanes on their own. The holy grail they refer to is being able to predict hurricane formation and intensity.
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With GRIP, NASA's first domestic hurricane project since 2001, the agency has assembled the largest-ever hurricane research experiment to investigate these questions. Three NASA planes, multiple NASA satellites and four planes from research partners NOAA and NSF will combine to make unprecedented measurements of tropical storms as they are forming (or dying out) and intensifying (or weakening). The intense scientific focus on these meteorological processes could provide new insight into the fundamental physics of hurricanes and ultimately improve our ability to forecast the strength of a storm at landfall. Predictions of hurricane strength continue to lag behind the accuracy of storm track predictions, but accurate predictions of both are needed for the best possible preparation before landfall.
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