26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 6C: Tropical Cyclone Prediction and Predictability II: Track and Intensity

Tuesday, 4 May 2004: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Napoleon II Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  James S. Goerss, NRL
Papers:
  10:15 AM
Dropsonde observations for typhoon surveillance near the Taiwan region (DOTSTAR): An overview
Chun-Chieh Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and P. H. Lin, T. C. Yeh, and S. D. Aberson

  10:29 AM
Paper 6C.2 has been moved to Poster Session P1, New Paper Number P1.99

  10:30 AM
Targeting strategies to improve hurricane track forecasts
S. J. Majumdar, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. D. Aberson, B. J. Etherton, L. D. Holland, Z. Toth, and C. H. Bishop

http://orca.rsmas.miami.edu/~majumdar/tc/

  10:45 AM
Impact of high resolution water vapor measurements from airborne lidar on hurricane characterization and forecasting
Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail, R. A. Ferrare, R. Kamineni, T. N. Krishnamurti, and S. Pattnaik

  11:00 AM
Reducing large tropical cyclone forecast errors using high-resolution satellite and radar data
Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. M. Leslie, J. F. LeMarshall, and L. Qi

http://

  11:15 AM
Probabilistic prediction of tropical-cyclone position and intensity
Harry C. Weber, University of Munich, Munich, Germany