LEO15 Records Remote Sensing,

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LEO-15 Records Remote Sensing, Meteorological
and In Situ Ocean Data From the Eye of
Hurricane Floyd
Mike Crowley, Scott Glenn, John Fracassi, Josh
Kohut Inst. of Marine and Coastal Sciences,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. James
Eberwine - National Weather Service, Mount Holly,
N.J.
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Floyd and a cold front merge to flood the
northeast...
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The Longterm Ecosystem Observatory - LEO-15
Instruments Used to Gather Data From Floyd
AVHRR
RADARSAT
SeaWiFS
AVIRIS
GPS/DDA Altimneter
Microwave Salinity Scanner
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Floyd Hits the New Jersey Coast
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Meteorological Data from the New Jersey Coast
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Wind Speeds (m/s)
1 m/s 1.9 mph
Wave Height
4.2
3.6
3.0
2.4
1.8
1.2
0.6
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Underwater Data from the New Jersey Coast
Peak Wave Period
Pressure
13.1
12.8
12.5
12.2
11.9
11.6
Wave Height
Bottom Temperature
4.2
3.6
22.5
3.0
22.2
2.4
21.95
1.8
1.2
21.7
0.6
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Before Floyd
Near the Eye of Floyd
Near the
Before
Floyd
Eye of
CODAR
CODAR
Antenna
Antenna
Floyd
Great
Great
Bay
Bay
Nodes
Nodes
Nodes
CODAR
CODAR
Antenna
Antenna
Filtered Sea-Level Comparisons
Virginia Delaware Cape May Atlantic City LEO
Node Sandy Hook Montauk
After Floyd
After
V
Floyd
CODAR
Antenna
S
D
A
C
Great
Bay
Nodes
M
L
CODAR
Antenna
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Node A ADCP Cross-Shore Velocities and Sea
Surface Height
Node A ADCP Along-Shore Velocities and Sea
Surface Height
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Phytoplankton Increases as a Result of Floyds
Winds
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All this real-time data from a hurricane is cool,
but...


These data sets and images are very
interesting and important
for scientific research, but the reality of a
hurricane is devastation.
North Carolina was hardest hit, but New Jersey
also suffered some
serious damage. Approximately 250 million in
damages affected
more than half the states population, which made
it the single most
costly disaster in the history of the state. The
town of Bound Brook
had multiple fires from electrical shorts
(below), yet was buried

under 10 feet of water.
Downtown

New Brunswick (right) was closed
Courtesy of the NWS

for 2 days following the Storm.
Heres a summary of some of the damages
1) 4 people dead
2) 10,000 evacuated
3) 31,000 with no power for
1 week or more
4) 30,000 with no water for
at least 4 days
5) 1.3 million must boil
drinking water for three weeks
Courtesy CNN.com