page_title: The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment
section_title: Notable Hurricanes
hierarchical_section_title: The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment / Notable Hurricanes
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the eyewall of w:Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, as seen from NOAA WP-3D Orion hurricane hunter aircraft before the storm made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast. Français&#160;: Vue de l'œil de l'ouragan Katrina photographié le 28 août 2005 à partir d'un avion de reconnaissance de la NOAA avant que le cyclone n'atteignît la côte américaine. Español: Vista de la pared del ojo del huracán Katrina tomada el 28 de agosto 2005, visto desde un avión de NOAA Orión WP-3D cazador de huracanes, antes de que la tormenta tocara tierra en las costas del golfo de Estados Unidos.
context_page_description: The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment is a project to improve hurricane intensity forecasting via measuring interactions between rainbands and the eyewalls of tropical cyclones. The experiment was planned for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. This coincidence of RAINEX with the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season led to the study and exploration of infamous hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia, and Rita. Where Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita would go on to cause major damage to the US Gulf coast, Hurricane Ophelia provided an interesting contrast to these powerful cyclones as it never developed greater than a category 1.
  The RAINEX project was a collaboration between the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, The University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Navy, Office of Naval Research.
  The objective of the research was to study the mechanism by which hurricane eyewall replacement cycle occurs. Luckily for the sake of the research, one such case of eyewall replacement occurred during the study of Hurricane Rita.
caption: View from P-3 aircraft from inside the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina
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