A New Observational Strategy for Monitoring the Tropical Cyclone Outflow Layer and its Relationship to Intensity and Structure Change

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to improve our understanding of the role of the outflow layer in tropical cyclone intensity and structure change though dedicated field program design and execution, improved observation of outflow structure and state of the art instrument development. The outflow layer is hypothesized to play both an active and passive role in tropical cyclone intensification and structural changes, and is investigated extensively using two highly instrumented NASA Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), co-located observations from NOAA WP-3D, NOAA G-IV and Air Force WC-130J manned aircraft together with microwave, infrared and visible satellite imagers, radiometers and scatterometers from the Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel (HS3) field program in the Atlantic during 2012-2014.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA598270

Entities

People

  • James D. Doyle
  • Peter G. Black

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cirrus Clouds
  • Cloud Physics
  • Cyclones
  • Intensity
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Microwave Radar
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Standards
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • W Band

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space