Improved Tropical Cyclone Research Capabilities

• Processes that strongly affect forecasts of storm intensity and intensity change.
  
  

  • Upper tropospheric Observations are sparse, limiting knowledge of environmental interactions and angular momentum transports into the storm.
    
    

• Processes that affect track forecasts.
  
  

  • Processes in the outflow layer may influence motion of recurving storms
    
    

  • Flight-level data from 43,000 ft will provide observations of these processes for the first time.

Updated Dec. 8, 1995