Hurricane Intensity Change

Principal Investigators:

Sim Aberson
Mike Black
Pete Black
Joe Cione
Jason Dunion
Steve Feuer
John Gamache
John Kaplan
Rob Rogers
Eric Uhlhorn
Matt Eastin

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

• Operational Intensity Forecasts
• Inner Core Prediction
• Saharan Air Layer
• CBLAST project
• COVES experiments in Humberto
• Hurricane Guillermo case study
• Hurricane Isabel eyewall study
• Real-time Doppler winds
• HWRF model
• TCIP/Lili

Reference:

Preprints: Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change, 11-16 January 1998, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 175 pp.