Description:

Coastal regions around the world have seen significant increases in population.  Regions prone to tropical cyclone (TC) landfall regularly incur disasters caused by these landfalling systems, with impacts becoming worse due to rising sea levels and warming oceans. Accurate forecasting of landfalling TCs is thus crucial for disaster preparedness and evacuation. Drastic structure and intensity changes to TCs generally occur during landfall due to complicated influences including, but not limited to, land-ocean contrast, coastal orography, ocean conditions before landfall, and large-scale atmospheric circulations. Such TC structure and intensity changes are challenging for landfalling TC prediction and warning. In this session, we solicit abstracts on observational and theoretical studies that help to advance the understanding of landfalling TC observations, dynamics/predictability and forecasting.