Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure: Improved Understanding and Prediction. Evaluation of Existing and Development of New Techniques for Global and Mesoscale NWP Model Assessment

Abstract

This is the first year of a new grant and the long-term goals are as follows. First, I will continue to work on the problem of estimating the theoretical limits to tropical cyclone track errors. My previous ONR grant revealed that there was at least a possible halving of the present errors in mean absolute track errors over most TC basins. This is clearly a sizeable error and its reduction should continue to be addressed. My second goal is to apply similar techniques, and possible new approaches, to the predictability of tropical cyclone intensity out to at least 96 hours.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA625721

Entities

People

  • Lance M. Leslie

Organizations

  • University of New South Wales

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Assimilation
  • Australia
  • Cyclones
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • High Resolution
  • Indian Ocean
  • Intensity
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Meteorology
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Systems Analysis and Design