The Off-Season Operations of the Air Force Hurricane Office 1947-1948

Abstract

A study was made of certain features of the hurricane-warning service between the end of the 1947 hurricane season and the beginning of the 1948 season as they concern the USAF and Army requirements. Three specific operational problems were studied: Improved utilization of aerial reconnaissance in hurricane forecasting, analysis of the past hurricane-forecasting performance, and supplemental analysis of tropical storms of the preceding season. The group was advised to concentrate on forecasting the direction of motion of tropical cyclones, forecasting changes in tropical storm intensity, and determining the general synoptic model of a tropical cyclone. The principal results of the study conducted during the period of the first off-season operation are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1948
Accession Number
ADA800255

Entities

People

  • H. W. Ellsaessor
  • N. M. Burgner
  • V. D. Dotson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Reconnaissance
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Altimeters
  • Altitude
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Cyclones
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Intensity
  • Meteorology
  • Navigation
  • Reconnaissance
  • Storms
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Turbulence
  • Weather Forecasting
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.