Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) – The CIMH is hosting a storm surge workshop organized by the United States of America’s National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/COMET from April 16th to 18th, 2024.
There is a large contingent of regional and international participants (forecasters and disaster managers) attending the workshop on the CIMH campus. Attending the workshop are attendees from across the Caribbean from Belize to Tobago and includes participants from as far as the Fiji Islands in the Western Pacific.
The Workshop is supported under the Coastal Inundation Project for the Caribbean, highlights the advances made in storm surge modeling and observation monitoring across the Caribbean.
Future projects will continue to improve the forecasts of tropical cyclone hazards and the associated impacts across the Caribbean and will expand to the Pacific Island region.
Storm surge and heavy rainfall historically represent the deadliest hazards associated with tropical cyclones, and this can be at any stage of the storm’s development.
The workshop will highlight the factors that play a major role in forecasting storm surge events. Also, at the same time emphasizes risk forecasting, observation, and mapping, thus allowing forecasters to develop and present warning scenarios.
The NHC team hopes to generate discussions on messaging the forecasts and improving observation networks, acknowledging that improving the communication of forecasts and observations is the most important to improve early warning of tropical cyclone impacts.
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