Hurricane Impacts
Strategic Element:
Healthy Ecosystems
Principal Investigators:
Sim Aberson
Bob Black
Peter Dodge
Chris Landsea
Frank D. Marks
Shirley Murillo
Mark D. Powell
Rob Rogers
Paul Willis
Objectives:
To improve our basic physical understanding, analyses, and
forecasts of tropical cyclone air-sea and boundary layer
interactions, surface winds and quantitative estimation
and forecasts of tropical precipitation as well as landfall
impacts.
Investigations
• Ground-Based Velocity
Track Display
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Hurricane Surface Winds
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Florida catastrophe model
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ASOS wind exposure evaluation
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Hurricane boundary layer processes
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Hurricane Landfall
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Extratropical Transition
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Microphysics studies
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Hurricane Rainfall
References:
- Marks, F. D., 1990: Radar observations of tropical weather
systems, Radar in Meteorology, D. Atlas, ed, American
Meteorological Society, Boston, 401--425.
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Pielke, R. A.,
Jr., C. W. Landsea, R. T. Musulin, and M. Downton, 1999:
Evaluation of catastrophe models using a normalized historical
record: Why it is needed and how to do it. Journal of Risk
and Insurance, v.18, pp.177-194.
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Pielke,
Jr., R. A., and Landsea, C.W., 1998: Normalized U.S. hurricane damage,
1925--1995. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 621-631.
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Powell, M. D., S. H. Houston, and T. A. Reinhold, 1996:
Hurricane Andrew's Landfall in South Florida. Part I:
Standardizing measurements for documentation of surface wind
fields.Wea. Forecast., 11, 304-328
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Powell, M. D., and S. H. Houston, 1996: Hurricane Andrew's
Landfall in South Florida. Part II: Surface Wind Fields and
Potential Real-time Applications. Wea. Forecast.,
11, 329-349
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R. J. Murnane, C. Barton, E. Collins, J. Donnelly, J. Elsner,
K. Emanuel, I. Ginis, S. Howard, C. Landsea, K. Liu, D. Malmquist,
M. McKay, A. Michaels, N. Nelson, J. O'Brien, D. Scott, and T. Webb,
2000: Model estimates hurricane wind speed probabilities.
Eos, v.81 n.38, pp.433-438.
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