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GFDL Hurricane Dynamics
Research Staff
Robert Tuleya
Bender, Morris
Marchok, Timothy
AOS Program
David S. Nolan
Goals
- Continue to improve the GFDL hurricane forecast system and its operational implementations.
- Construct high-resolution non-hydrostatic hurricane models to study the fundamental dynamics of genesis, structure, and motion.
- Investigate hurricane sensitivity to climate change using new models as they are developed.
![Hurricane Floyd](Floyd_still_001.gif)
Current Research
Research History
Models
FMSHurricane
WRF
Zetac
What's new
Summary of system updates for 2001Spatial analysis of model track & intensity errors
Global Warming and Hurricanes
Images and Movies
Hurricane Floyd (1999)
Recent Presentations and Lectures
Relevant Links
Hurricane Facts
Affiliated labs/organizations
NCEP
EMC
University of Rhode Island
TPC / NHC
AOML / HRD
NOAA / CIRA