She was a 14-year-old in JFK Airport when she was first spied by an agent for London's Storm Model Management.

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All of the European agencies he visited said no, except for his very last appointment, which just happened to be with Sarah Doukas and Storm Model Management.

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The National Weather Service updated its storm-surge model to take into account larger and slower-moving storms and include better elevation and high tide data last year.

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Based on observational data of solar storms, the radiation belts, and the plasmasphere during past years, the authors were able to successfully model the Halloween solar storm.

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They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.

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Where the model sees a gentle breeze, there is instead a mighty storm.

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