UM Rosenstiel School-Led Research Team Honored for Outstanding Research Paper

MIAMI—A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research team led by Professor David Nolan has been awarded the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) prestigious Banner Miller award. The Banner Miller award, given biyearly at the AMS meeting on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, recognizes an outstanding contribution to the science of hurricane and tropical weather forecasting that was published in a journal with international circulation during the previous four years.

Nolan, whose research focuses on the dynamics of hurricanes and the improvement of hurricane forecasts, and the research team received the award during the AMS Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology meeting held in April 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.