| Project Title |
Principal Investigator(s) |
TPC/NHC Point of Contact |
Goals |
Cost |
Years |
2004 Mid-year Reports |
IHC 2004 Pres. |
First Year Report |
2005 Mid-year Reports |
IHC 2005 Pres. |
Final Report |
Status |
| Upgrades to the operational GFDL hurricane prediction system |
Bender (GFDL) |
Pasch Rhome |
X |
$90,000/yr |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Improving the GFDL/URI coupled hurricane-ocean model |
Ginis (URI) |
Pasch Rhome |
X |
$135,700-yr 1;
$142,900-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Accept |
| Hurricane model transitions to operations at NCEP/EMC |
Pan (NCEP) |
Pasch Rhome |
X |
$165,000/yr |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Evaluation of upper ocean mixing parameterizations |
Jacob (UMBC)
Shay (UM)
Halliwell (UM) |
Lawrence
Mainelli |
X |
$93,000-yr 1; $96,900-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Not Accept |
| Real-time dissemination of hurricane wind fields determined from
airborne doppler |
Gamache (HRD) |
Franklin, McAdie, Blake
EMC: several |
X |
$82,300-yr 1; $100,900-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Targeting strategies to improve hurricane track forecasts |
Majumdar (UM)
Aberson (HRD)
Toth (NCEP) |
Franklin |
X |
$122,500-yr 1;
$127,400-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Objective and automated assessment of operational global forecast
model predictions of tropical cyclone formation and life cycle |
Harr (NPS) |
Pasch
Avila
Blake |
X |
$58,200-yr 1; $62,200-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept, but unable to implement due to technical issues. |
| An updated baseline for track forecast skill through five days
for the Atlantic and Northeastern and Northwestern Pacific basins |
Aberson (HRD) |
Franklin
Gross |
X |
$19,000 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept
|
| Quantifying tropical cyclone track forecast uncertainty and improving
extended-range tropical cyclone track forecasts using an ensemble
of dynamical models |
Goerss (NRL) |
Beven
Gross |
X |
$60,000 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept
|
| Transition of revised dynamical model track prediction evaluation
expert system (DYMES) |
Boothe (NPS) |
Stewart
Roberts |
X |
$80,000 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Not Submitted |
Not Accept
|
| Improving the validation and prediction of tropical cyclone rainfall |
Rogers (HRD)
Pan (NCEP)
Black (HRD)
Marchok (GFDL) |
Stewart
Molleda |
X |
$120,000-yr 1;
$127,500-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Implementation of the Advanced Objective Dvorak Technique (AODT) and Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation (TIE) algorithms at TPC |
Kossin (UW)
Velden (UW) |
Beven
Rhome
Mainelli
Cobb
Brown |
X |
$95,400-yr 1;
$99,700-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Improvements in Deterministic and Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone
Surface Wind Predictions |
Knaff (CIRA)
DeMaria (CIRA) |
Lawrence
Gross
Sisko |
X |
$95,000/yr |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Development of a rapid intensification index for the eastern Pacific
basin |
Kaplan (HRD) |
Avila
Sisko |
X |
$54,200-yr 1;
$64,100-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accept |
| Developing an inner-core SST cooling predictor for use in SHIPS |
Cione (HRD)
Gentemann (RSS)
Kaplan (HRD) |
Avila
Berg
Sisko
Blake |
X |
$79,500-yr 1;
$71,300-yr 2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
Accept |
