About HRD

May 2004

NOAA's 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Outlook is released at a conference in Houston, Texas.

Hurricane Data Availability session held at AMS 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.

October 2003

Scientific journal articles by HRD personnel (1999-2003) are put online.

May 2003

March 2003

Dr. Mark Powell's Nature paper on drag coefficients in hurricane force winds is published.

February 2003

Mike Black and James Franklin's Weather and Forecasting paper on hurricane eyewall wind profiles is released.

January 2003

January 2002

New HRD Website design is brought on line.

July 2001

Begin designing of new HRD Website to match new AOML template. JAVA script menus are added.

January 2000

HRD Website receives facelift. Pages given a cleaner look and frames version of Mission Catalog (formerly Storm Atlas) is discarded.

October 1998

HRD Website reorganized, Table of Contents and list of links are added.

June 1997

Frames version of Storm Atlas created. Web version of Dr. Chris Landsea's TCFAQ is created and linked to the HRD Home Page.

November 1995

HRD Website is created by Chris Samsury, Dr. Frank Marks, and Summer Spisak. Storm Atlas is created to allow public access of HRD mission data.