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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.
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