30 May 2023 Ships and Sailors Safe, Naval Oceanography Tracks Super Typhoon in Western Pacific “The information we gather is then disseminated and utilized for resource protection…making sure that our people and our assets [U.S. Navy Ships and Sailors] are protected and out of harm’s way ahead of these destructive systems,” said Mr. Brian Strahl, JTWC Director...
13 March 2023 JTWC Collaboration with International Space Station Joint Typhoon Warning Center is using data from NASA-Built weather sensors enlisted to track tropical cyclones via two newly installed sensors known as COWVR and TEMPEST. The duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role in weather forecasting. NASA...
17 December 2022 Back At It: JTWC Conducts Training With USS Daniel Inouye Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) resumed fleet liaison observation training in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii starting with USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), on Dec. 15, 2022. For the first time since COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii resumed its...
28 October 2022 New Satellite Data Aids DOD’s Typhoon Forecasters Data from two novel satellite instruments have recently been made available to forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to evaluate the instruments’ ability to aid in the analysis and prediction of tropical cyclones, Oct. 28. The Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems...
10 June 2022 JTWC Int’l Roadshow Strengthens U.S.-Japanese Alliance Naval Oceanography’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) visited the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) during JTWC’s 2022 International Roadshow, June 10.JTWC’s Director, Mr. Brian Strahl and its Training Department Head, Dr. Owen Shieh executed the visit, offering training to JMA’s...
08 June 2022 Annual Joint Typhoon Warning Center “Road Show” Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) kicked off their annual “Road Show” a two-week outreach tour across U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and the western Pacific during the climatological lull in global tropical cyclone activity, June 5-21, 2022. During the “Road Show,” JTWC is typically...
28 April 2022 JTWC Hosts Tropical Cyclone Conference 2022 HONOLULU——Naval Oceanography’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) hosted the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) Tropical Cyclone Conference 2022 (TCC-22), a three-day event, for civilian and military meteorologists and forecasters, held at the East-West Center, Apr. 26-28.The conference...