| Project Title |
Principal Investigator(s) |
NHC Point of Contact |
Goals |
Costs |
Years |
| Hurricane model transition to operations at NCEP/EMC |
R. Tuleya (Old Dominion Univ) |
Pasch
Blake
Lord (EMC)
Landsea |
X |
y1: $100,450 |
2 |
| Improving the Hurricane WRF-Ocean Coupled System for Transition to Operations |
I Ginis (Univ of Rhode Island)
M Bender (NOAA/GFDL) |
Pasch
Cangialosi
Roberts
Lord (EMC)
Landsea |
X |
y1: $162,808 |
2 |
| Evaluation and Improvements of Cloud and Precipitation Physics in the Operational Hurricane WRF Model at NOAA/EMC |
Y Wang and V Phillips (Univ of Hawai'i) |
Brennan
Lord (EMC)
Landsea |
X |
y1: $90,309 |
2 |
| Evaluation and Improvement of Ocean Model Parameterizations for NCEP Operations |
N Shay (Univ of Miami/RSMAS)
G Halliwell (NOAA/AOML) |
Avila
Schauer-Clark
Lord (EMC)
Landsea |
X |
y1: $158,150
y2: $74,000 |
2 |
| Improving Predictability of the Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP) in Ocean Model for Assistance to Operational Hurricane Forecast |
C Wang and S-K Lee (NOAA/AOML) |
Pasch
Schauer-Clark
Lord (EMC)
Landsea |
X |
y1: $80,756 |
2 |
| Advanced Applications of the Monte Carlo Wind Probability Model |
S Kidder (Colo Sate Univ) and M DeMaria (NOAA/NESDIS) |
Brennan
Berg
Brown
Lauer
Knabb
Landsea |
X |
y1: $35,000 |
2 |
| ATCF Requirements, Intensity Consensus and Sea Heights Consistent w/ NHC Forecasts |
B Sampson (NRL) |
Avila
Brown
Sisko
Christensen
Landsea |
X |
y1: $94,000 |
2 |
| In-Flight Data Processing for the Wind Swath Radar Altimeter (WSRA) for Real-Time Reporting of Directional Ocean Wave Spectra from the NOAA WP-3D Hurricane Reconnaissance Aircraft |
I PopStefanjia (ProSensing Inc) |
Beven
Brown
Lauer
Landsea |
X |
y1: $106,000 |
2 |
| Improvement in the Rapid Intensity Index Incorporation of Inner Core Information |
J Kaplan et al. (NOAA/AOML) |
Avila
Kimberlain
Blake
Sisko
Landsea |
X |
y1: $70,876 |
2 |
| Improved Real-Time Hurricane Ocean Vector Winds from QuikSCAT |
L Jones et al. (Univ Central FL) |
Brennan
Beven
Landsea |
X |
y1: $84,000 |
2 |
| A New Secondary Eyewall Formation Index, Transition to Operations and Quantification of Associated Intensity Changes |
J Kossin (Univ of Wisc/CIMSS) |
Kimberlain
Berg
Sisko
Landsea |
X |
y1: $59,269 |
2 |
| Development of a Unified Dropsonde Quality Assurance and Visualization Capability |
M Black (NOAA/AOML) and C Martin (NCAR/EOL) |
Franklin
Landsea |
X |
y1: $115,086 |
2 |
