Tropical meteorology research at AOML is focused on advancing the understanding and prediction of hurricanes and other tropical weather. Scientists conduct their research utilizing a combination of models, theories, and observations, with particular emphasis on data obtained with research aircraft in the inner core of tropical cyclones and their surrounding environment.

Track Forecasting

• Synoptic surveillance and targeting

Hurricane Intensity Change

• Data assimilation
• Real-time Doppler winds
• Boundary-layer roll diagnosis
• Hurricane Rita wind field
• Tropical cyclogenesis
• Rapid intensification index
• Wind decay model
• Advanced numerical prediction and modeling
• Aerosonde experiment
• Mesoscale eyewall structure study
• Saharan Air Layer
• CBLAST
• Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential

Climate Variation

• Atlantic Hurricane Reanalysis Project
• Long-term variability
• NOAA seasonal hurricane forecasts
• Jordan sounding update
• Tropical cyclones and climate

Hurricane Impacts

• Hurricanes at landfall
• Ground-based velocity track display
• Microphysics study
• Extratropical transition
• Hurricane surface winds

Administrative Projects

• Data rescue