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2009-2011 JHT Projects


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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Accept

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