Storm Resource Center
MARACOOS and partners are tracking storms and collecting data related to storms and other extreme events impacting the East Coast. Using data derived from gliders, drifters, buoys, models, radars, satellites, and weather stations to analyze ocean dynamics, we are better able to predict impacts in the Mid-Atlantic as storms and weather systems move through the region. Scroll down to view a collection of tools and resources related to Atlantic storms and weather systems.
OceansMap Insights: Storms
Explore our new OceansMap Insights page, with a suite of pre-made permalinks and interactive dashboards, including a handful of storm-related Insights.
MARACOOS Asset Overview
MARACOOS and its partners are tracking storms and other extreme events impacting the East Coast. OceansMap can be used to visualize and analyze data as these events develop and unfold. Using data derived from gliders, drifters, buoys, models, radars, satellites, and weather stations to analyze ocean dynamics, researchers are better able to predict impacts in the Mid-Atlantic as storms and weather systems move through the region.
Gliders
Multiple gliders are deployed or preparing for deployment in the coming days. Glider RU 28 will be equipped with two new sensors including an experimental wave sensor that will allow us to better understand the wave field across broad spatial regions during Hurricanes. We additionally have a new optical sensor that will help us better understand coastal erosion and deposition and ecosystem impacts.
High Frequency Radar
MARACOOS partners operate 41 radars along the Mid-Atlantic Coast. These radars provide surface current direction and speed. The differences in direction and speed are noticeably extreme during storm events.
Satellites
MARACOOS partners operate satellite receiving stations in Delaware and New Jersey. These data provide us with high resolution images from polar orbiting satellites, and lower resolution images from geostationary satellites that update every 15 minutes.
Buoys
MARACOOS partners operate networks of buoys that typically measure parameters like wind speed and direction, air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, water temperature, salinity, wave height/direction/period.
Storm Tracking Resources
SECOORA Real-Time Observations Portal (SouthEast IOOS, North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico)
