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
• Hurricane Surface Winds
• Florida catastrophe model
• ASOS wind exposure evaluation
• Hurricane boundary layer processes
• Hurricane Landfall
• Extratropical Transition
• Microphysics studies
• 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.
• 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.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., and Landsea, C.W., 1998: Normalized U.S. hurricane damage, 1925--1995. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 621-631.
• 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
• 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
• 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.