Model Guidance
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The aims of this project are: (a) to foster increased development of forecast aids for global basins by engaging the wider community of operational centers, academic researchers, and commercial interests; and (b) to go beyond track and intensity both by encouraging the development of forecast aids for structure change and by providing structure data for use in track and intensity projection methods. To accomplish these aims, the project is organized around four main objectives: (1) to provide a global repository of tropical cyclone forecast aids for track and intensity information, (2) to provide real-time plots of these data for active tropical cyclones, and (3) to visualize structure and intensity parameters from observations taken by reconnaissance aircraft, (4) to provide retrospective plots of these data for past tropical cyclones. This site is organized by tabs underneath the banner image above.
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This page presents operational model fields that are being used in a study examining their forecast ability for tropical cyclogenesis in the northern Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins. The ECMWF data are provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting. The ECMWF graphics are provided by the Penn State E-Wall.
Tropical Group TC Model Generation Page
This is the last tropical weather outlook of the 2011 atlantic hurricane season. The next regular tropical weather outlook will be issued on June 1 2012. Special tropical weather outlooks will be issued as needed if a significant weather system forms during the off-season.
Stormpulse / Hurricanes, severe weather, tracking, mapping
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, which generally forms in the tropics and is accompanied by thunderstorms and a counterclockwise circulation of winds. Tropical cyclones are classified as follows: Tropical Depression: Organized system of clouds and thunderstorms with defined surface circulation and max sustained winds of 38 mph or less.
Hurricane Spaghetti Models / Spaghetti Charts / Tropical Forecast / Hurricane Charts Models / Tropical Update
with the goals of improved structural forecasting, structural transition (subtropical/tropical/extratropical), cyclogenesis, and providing measures of structural predictability. Please note that these products are experimental and not official forecasts.
Cyclone phase evolution: Analyses & Forecasts