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65th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference


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Just going through some of these talks. I'm going to post thoughts here as I come across them.

Looks like HWRF might not be useless anymore thanks to the improvements in the GFS.

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session05/s05-03kwon.pptx

But GFDL will be even better.

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session05/s05-04Bender.session5.4.ihc.ppt

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Just c/p'ing this, because it's important into understanding how genesis occurs (in the Atlantic), but go through the whole ppt.

H1: Wave breaking or roll-up of cyclonic vorticity near the critical surface in the lower troposphere (>600 hPa) provides favorable environment and focal point for aggregation of convectively-generated cyclonic vorticity anomalies.

H2: The wave critical layer is a region of closed circulation, where air is repeatedly moistened by deep convection and also protected from dry air entrainment to some extent.

H3: The parent wave is maintained and possibly enhanced by diabatically amplified mesoscale vortices within the wave. (Heating is most effective when intrinsic frequency --> 0.)

The “baby” proto-vortex is carried along in the “pouch” (CL cat’s eye) by the “mother” wave until it is strengthened into an independent and self-sustaining vortex.

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session08/s08-05IHC_PREDICT_talk_public.ppt

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Stat-dynamical model shows skill at forecasting TC genesis 90 days out. This will be fantastic if it we can get it operationally, even with a high FAR.

  • Statistical-dynamical system with extensive ensembling provides long range forecast (LRF) products for which there are few or no alternatives:

  • Daily, 2.5 degree resolution
  • Skill at leads of 4 to 90 days
  • Consistent, reliable

  • On-going and planned R&D

  • Upgrade system using CFSR and CFSv2
  • Extend verification (e.g., consistency, reliability, BSS, false alarms compared to invests/TCFAs/OLRA)
  • Increase leads to 6 months. Increase ensembling at all leads.
  • Continue / extend system to:
  • North Atlantic and other basins
  • Track and intensity
  • Extend climate variation assessments (e.g., ENLN, MJO, IOD)
  • Consider alternate dynamical model for short-medium leads

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session10/s10-07murphreeV2.pptx

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Lots of stuff on RI and statistical intensity prediction

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session11/s11-02-dunion_ihc2011.pptx

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session11/s11-03-knaff_ihc2011_statistical_intensity.pptx

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session11/s11-04rozoff.ppt

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session11/s11-05jiang.ppt

http://www.ofcm.gov/ihc11/Presentations/Session12/s12-02Kaplan_IHC11_new.ppt

Main takeaways are that we are likely to see ET and rapid weakening parameters in SHIPS in 2012, using the MW ring helps forecast RI, and that upshear TPW can help forecasting intensity changes (both positive and negative).

As usual, intensity forecasting is a mix of internal and external factors and is a big reason why it is such a challenge (vs. track forecasting which is mainly due to external factors)

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Just going through some of these talks. I'm going to post thoughts here as I come across them.

Looks like HWRF might not be useless anymore thanks to the improvements in the GFS.

http://www.ofcm.gov/...s05-03kwon.pptx

Not a professional power point reader, but isn't the improvement in intensity forecasting as compared to last year's model gone by hour 60?

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Not a professional power point reader, but isn't the improvement in intensity forecasting as compared to last year's model gone by hour 60?

Yes, but the track forecasts are no longer complete garbage (at least through the back testing).

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Stat-dynamical model shows skill at forecasting TC genesis 90 days out. This will be fantastic if it we can get it operationally, even with a high FAR.

http://www.ofcm.gov/...murphreeV2.pptx

Interesting results. So basically this means the NHC (or JTWC) might able to do something similar to what the CPC does currently with temperature and precipitation forecasts and forecast an enhanced probability of certain regions for TCG. Having an HSS hovering just below .4 is excellent considering the time range!

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Those are the most interesting/relevant talks for forecasting. There is some science-y stuff that's cool, but I skipped over. If you are into forecasting, though, you should at least look over all the links I provided.

Yea thanks Adam for giving a nice synopsis of the various talks. Will be great viewing material as we await the start of this years hurricane season!

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I hope HiRAD becomes operational in real time (basically a wide scan SFMR). That thing looks like the bomb diggity.

Looking forward to digging into this a bit more over the weekend. Any improvement in the current SFMR will be welcomed. Thanks for the talking points, Adam.

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Looking forward to digging into this a bit more over the weekend. Any improvement in the current SFMR will be welcomed. Thanks for the talking points, Adam.

Just to be clear, it's not an "improvement" in the sense of determining more accurate winds. It's using the same algorithms to generate the wind speeds, but HiRAD is not just available at the nadir of the radiometer, which allows a much larger wind swath to be sampled.

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