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Old September 17th 03, 07:40 PM posted to sci.geo.meteorology
Scott Lindstrom Scott Lindstrom is offline
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Sim Aberson wrote:
In article ,
Scott Lindstrom wrote:

Sim Aberson wrote:
[snip stuff about reassessment]

Other storms are also being reassessed.


Have any storms been reassessed downwards in intensity?



Yes. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/project2003/hurdat.html


I sent off my question before I completely formulated it.
What I should have asked was:

Have any storms been reassessed downwards in intensity
based on actual reanalysis of data from the GPS dropwindsonde
and/or the SFMR. Or, are relationships derived from
observations taken by these instruments in storm A
used to re-estimate winds in storm B. I mean, there
weren't these new dropwindsonde data in '92 -- so
is it "just" (I'm not overlooking the tremendous
amount of work done) a matter of reanalysing the
old data based on the new relationships found with
the new instruments? Did I read through the links
in the above link correctly? So it's not like new
data has been found the old storms like Andrew,
right?

Scott, maybe confused