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
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.