Improved Tropical Cyclone Research Capabilities

• Processes that strongly affect forecasts of storm intensity and intensity change.
  

   

• Upper tropospheric Observations are sparse, limiting knowledge of environmental interactions and angular momentum transports into the storm.

• Processes that affect track forecasts.
  

   

• Processes in the outflow layer may influence motion of recurving storms
  

   

• Flight-level data from 43,000 ft will provide observations of these processes for the first time.

For information about improved research capability marks@aoml.noaa.gov

Updated Dec. 8, 1995