Improving Forecasts of Pineapple Express Storms - Fall Meeting 2012

Explore a press conference from the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting focused on enhancing predictions of "Pineapple Express" storms. Delve into the installation of the first of four permanent "atmospheric river observatories" along California's coast, designed to monitor and forecast the impacts of these powerful winter systems. Learn how these custom instrument arrays, developed in collaboration with the California Department of Water Resources, will provide crucial data to weather forecasters, emergency managers, and water resource experts. Discover the potential of these observatories to improve understanding of storms that can cause destructive floods and debris flows while also replenishing state reservoirs. Gain insights from a panel of experts including NOAA research meteorologists, the California State Climatologist, National Weather Service forecasters, and hydrologists from the U.S. Geological Survey and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.