Here you will use SimPlayer visualization and simulation tools to study hurricane behavior. Once you know about their behavior patterns, you can try your hand at predicting their paths and their development.
Predictions can be for a hurricane of the past or for one that is happening right now.
Meteorologists from both the public and private sectors have visited the EarthPulse Center Hurricane Lab and provided feedback on the authenticity of the exercises and visualizations. Please visit Scientists in the Hurricane Lab for more information on the people and agencies involved in this project. Scientists say that we're in for a similar lineup of intense Atlantic basin storms not only this year, but for the next several hurricane seasons as well. Use the simulation tools at the work desks to run and rerun simulations of Atlantic basin hurricanes, and compare the paths of current or recent storms with those from the past. In doing so, you will begin to recognize patterns in the dynamics of hurricane behavior, and be able to formulate your own hypotheses on the questions posed above.