Hurricane Intensity Change

Principal Investigators:
Sim Aberson
Mike Black
Sylvie Lorsolo
Joe Cione
Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan
Jason Dunion
John Gamache
John Kaplan
Rob Rogers
Eric Uhlhorn

Objective: To improve our basic physical understanding and forecasts of tropical cyclone intensity change and structure. To develop forecast and process models and test them against observations.

Investigations

Real-time Doppler winds
Boundary-layer roll diagnosis
Hurricane Rita wind field
Tropical Cyclogenesis
Rapid Intensification index
Wind Decay model
Advanced prediction and modeling
Data Assimilation
Aerosonde experiment
Mesoscale eyewall structure study
Saharan Air Layer
CBLAST
Editsonde/ASPEN comparison
Advanced Dvorak Technique evaluation

Reference:

Preprints: Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change, 11-16 January 1998, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 175 pp.