Session: Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) I (33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology)

Monday, 16 April 2018: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Champions ABC (Sawgrass Marriott)

Host: 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Chair:

Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

CoChair:

Nicole P. Kurkowski, NWS, STI, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:

8:30 AM

1C.1

Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP):Addressing the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017

Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and F. Toepfer, E. Rappaport, and N. P. Kurkowski

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8:45 AM

1C.2

Recent and Future Advances in Tropical Cyclone Modeling at NOAA's National Weather Service National Center for Environmental Prediction (NWS/NCEP)

Avichal Mehra, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and V. Tallapragada, Z. Zhang, B. Liu, W. Wang, L. Zhu, H. S. Kim, D. Iredell, Q. Liu, B. Zhang, J. A. Sippel, B. Thomas, K. Wu, S. Abarca, and H. Winterbottom

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9:00 AM

1C.3

A Description of the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Corrected Consensus Approach (HCCA) for Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Guidance

Andrew B. Penny, Systems Research Group / National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; and A. Simon, M. DeMaria, J. L. Franklin, R. J. Pasch, E. Rappaport, and D. A. Zelinsky

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9:15 AM

1C.4

Isolating Factors for the Northward Turn Timing and Location of Hurricane Irma

Xuejin Zhang, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and M. Cai, G. J. Alaka Jr., F. D. Marks Jr., L. Qi, and S. G. Gopalakrishnan

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9:30 AM

1C.5

Investigation of Irma & Maria Track Forecasts Using an Ensemble Approach within Basin-Scale HWRF

Ghassan J. Alaka Jr., NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and X. Zhang, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, and Z. Zhang

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9:45 AM