| Project Title | 
        Principal Investigator(s) | 
        NHC Point of Contact | 
        Goals | 
        Costs | 
        Years | 
        2010 Mid-year Reports | 
        IHC 2010 Pres. | 
        First-year Reports | 
        2011 Mid-year Reports | 
        IHC 2011 Pres. | 
        Final Reports | 
        Status | 
      
      
        | Hurricane model transition to operations at NCEP/EMC | 
        R. Tuleya (Old Dominion Univ) | 
        Pasch Blake Lord (EMC) Landsea | 
        X | 
        y1: $100,450 y2: $101,249 | 
        2 | 
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        Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $161,064 | 
        2 | 
         | 
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         | 
         | 
         | 
         | 
        Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $94,238 | 
        2 | 
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         | 
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         | 
         | 
        Not Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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: $181,191 | 
        2 | 
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         | 
         | 
         | 
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        Not Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $94,769 | 
        2 | 
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         | 
         | 
         | 
         | 
         | 
        Not Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $35,000 | 
        2 | 
         | 
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         | 
         | 
         | 
         | 
        Accept  | 
      
      
        | ATCF Requirements, Intensity Consensus and Sea Heights Consistent w/ NHC Forecasts | 
        B Sampson (NRL) | 
        Avila Brown Sisko Schauer Landsea | 
        X | 
        y1: $94,000 y2: $94,000 | 
        2 | 
         | 
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         | 
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         | 
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        Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 PopStefanija (ProSensing Inc) | 
        Beven Brown Lauer Landsea | 
        X | 
        y1: $106,000 y2: $122,879 | 
        2 | 
        
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        Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $74,575 | 
        2 | 
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         | 
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        Accept  | 
      
      
        | Improved Real-Time Hurricane Ocean Vector Winds from QuikSCAT | 
        L Jones et al. (Univ Central FL) | 
        Brennan Beven Landsea | 
        X | 
        y1: $84,000 y2: not funded | 
        2 | 
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         | 
         | 
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        Not Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 Blake | 
        X | 
        y1: $59,269 y2: $61,231 | 
        2 | 
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         | 
         | 
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        Accept  | 
      
      
        | 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 y2: $120,102 | 
        2 | 
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        Accept  |