Hurricane forecasting tools
2) NOAA OSPO
2) University of Miami . For all the University of Miami Atlantic ocean products, click here.
3) OHC archives: a. Florida State University (1998-2014); b. University of Miami (see bottom, 1998-current); c. NOAA AOML (2011-2017)
2) a. Windsat at REMSS ; b. Windsat at NOAA NESDIS STAR
3) a. KNMI scatterometer products, including ScatSat ; b. KNMI wind product viewer
4) a. SMAP at REMSS ; b. SMAP at NOAA NESDIS STAR
5) GPM
6) AMSR-2 . All AMSR-2 products
7) SAR winds. Also see this link: SAR coastal winds. To learn more about SAR, read the SARS Users Manual .
2) MIMIC products
a. MIMIC TC
b. MIMIC TPW
c. MIMIC TPW layers: i) 850 mb-surface; ii) 700-850 mb; iii) 500-700 mb; iv) 300-500 mb
3) Diurnal pulsing
4) SATCON intensity estimates
5) Saharan Air Layer (SAL)
6) Tropical Overshooting Tops (TOT)
7) Automated Storm Center Retrieval (ARCHER)
8) ARCHER Eyewall Replacement Cycle (ERC) product
2) GOES East (from NOAA STAR)
3) GOES East visible imagery floater (from University of Wisconsin)
4) GOES East products (from College of DuPage)
5) GOES East and Himawari 8 products (from CIRA)
6) Variety of satellite products, including lightning overlays and ABI products (from NASA SPORT)
7) Tropical Tidbits imagery
2) TPW prediction
2) NOAA NESDIS's Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product
3) FSU model genesis guidance and FSU graphics of individual models
4) NCEP/EMC Cyclogenesis and Cyclone Tracking website
5) Probability product from GEFS (courtesy Alan Brammer)
6) Barons Hurricane Index
2) Radii wind probabilities (NHC link)
2) Multiplatform Tropical Cyclone Surface Winds Analysis (MTCSWA) --- CIRA website, click on storm name, scroll down
2) Vertical cross-sections of radar and wind (intermittent from HRD research flights, click on latest flights, then click on figure links)
3) Hurricane Hunter information
a. From Tropical Tidbits website
b. From Tropical Atlantic website
c. Raw data from National Hurricane Center (vortex data message can be useful)
2) Dvorak (from NOAA NESDIS)
3) Advanced Dvorak technique (from CIMMS)
2) Long radar loops of tropical cyclones, real-time and archive (courtesy of Brian McNoldy, University of Miami)
2) Mid-Atlantic Development Region
3) U.S. East Coast
4) Eastern Antilles
5) Caribbean Sea
6) Gulf of Mexico
2) PSURGE
3) Qrisq Analytics
4) CERA
5) ESTOFS
6) GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System --- info on all natural disasters coordinated with United Nations)
2) NOAA tide gauges
3) USGS gauges
4) NWS River Forecast Centers
5) The Water Model. Latest static links here.
6) USGS flood page (links for hydrology flooding and surge inundation SWATH network)
7) Equations for river modeling (supplemental material, not required for class)
8) Harvey monitoring: a. Harris County Flood Control District ; b. Texas DOT ; c. West Gulf River Forecast Center
2) ETRAP
3) WPC QPF
4) WPC PQPF
5) WPC Excessive rainfall outlook
2) NOAA's Tropical Rainfall Products
3) Archive Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Totals
2) Satellite-derived (NRL)
3) Radar-derived. (Click on region, then one-hour total in left column)
2) NASA GEOS. Also see this Goddard link. Information on the data assimilation of aerosol optical depth is in this article.
Here is a different visualization of the NASA product focused on Africa. Click here.
3) NRL's NAAPS. Information on this model is here.
a. Michael Ventrice website
b. NOAA CPC MJO page
c. NOAA CPC dynamical models page
d. Australian BOM MJO page
2) NOAA teleconnection page
3) NOAA CPC El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) page
4) NOAA ENSO status and predictions
2) NOAA
3) Tropical Storm Risk (Atlantic and Western Pacific)
4) All seasonal predictions (courtesy of seasonalhurricanepredictions.org)
2) NOAA global flood website
3) Dartmouth Flood Observatory (satellite estimates of inundation)
- NHC website
- NHC tropical weather discussion
- Tropical Prediction Center Marine page
- Tropical Prediction Center current tropical analysis map
- Easy forecast model interface: tropicaltidbits.com
- Another easy forecast model interface: Pivotal Weather
- HWRF website
- HMON website
- HRD model website
- CIRA website
- NRL website
- COAMPS-TC website
- NCAR Tropical Cyclone Guidance
- HFIP products and next-generation HAFS models (experimental)
- University of Albany tropical cyclone products
- Weathernerds website
- ATCF products
- Sea surface temperature products
2) NOAA OSPO
- Ocean Heat Content
2) University of Miami . For all the University of Miami Atlantic ocean products, click here.
3) OHC archives: a. Florida State University (1998-2014); b. University of Miami (see bottom, 1998-current); c. NOAA AOML (2011-2017)
- Satellite-derived surface winds
2) a. Windsat at REMSS ; b. Windsat at NOAA NESDIS STAR
3) a. KNMI scatterometer products, including ScatSat ; b. KNMI wind product viewer
4) a. SMAP at REMSS ; b. SMAP at NOAA NESDIS STAR
5) GPM
6) AMSR-2 . All AMSR-2 products
7) SAR winds. Also see this link: SAR coastal winds. To learn more about SAR, read the SARS Users Manual .
- CIMSS satellite products
2) MIMIC products
a. MIMIC TC
b. MIMIC TPW
c. MIMIC TPW layers: i) 850 mb-surface; ii) 700-850 mb; iii) 500-700 mb; iv) 300-500 mb
3) Diurnal pulsing
4) SATCON intensity estimates
5) Saharan Air Layer (SAL)
6) Tropical Overshooting Tops (TOT)
7) Automated Storm Center Retrieval (ARCHER)
8) ARCHER Eyewall Replacement Cycle (ERC) product
- Satellite imagery
2) GOES East (from NOAA STAR)
3) GOES East visible imagery floater (from University of Wisconsin)
4) GOES East products (from College of DuPage)
5) GOES East and Himawari 8 products (from CIRA)
6) Variety of satellite products, including lightning overlays and ABI products (from NASA SPORT)
7) Tropical Tidbits imagery
- Total Precipitable Water
2) TPW prediction
- Genesis products (experimental)
2) NOAA NESDIS's Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product
3) FSU model genesis guidance and FSU graphics of individual models
4) NCEP/EMC Cyclogenesis and Cyclone Tracking website
5) Probability product from GEFS (courtesy Alan Brammer)
6) Barons Hurricane Index
- Statistical intensity guidance
2) Radii wind probabilities (NHC link)
- Surface-derived tropical cyclone wind products
2) Multiplatform Tropical Cyclone Surface Winds Analysis (MTCSWA) --- CIRA website, click on storm name, scroll down
- Reconnaissance flights
2) Vertical cross-sections of radar and wind (intermittent from HRD research flights, click on latest flights, then click on figure links)
3) Hurricane Hunter information
a. From Tropical Tidbits website
b. From Tropical Atlantic website
c. Raw data from National Hurricane Center (vortex data message can be useful)
- Storm structure and classification
2) Dvorak (from NOAA NESDIS)
3) Advanced Dvorak technique (from CIMMS)
- Radar
2) Long radar loops of tropical cyclones, real-time and archive (courtesy of Brian McNoldy, University of Miami)
- Satellite-derived radar reflectivity
2) Mid-Atlantic Development Region
3) U.S. East Coast
4) Eastern Antilles
5) Caribbean Sea
6) Gulf of Mexico
- Storm surge
2) PSURGE
3) Qrisq Analytics
4) CERA
5) ESTOFS
6) GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System --- info on all natural disasters coordinated with United Nations)
- Storm surge monitoring and Inland flooding guidance
2) NOAA tide gauges
3) USGS gauges
4) NWS River Forecast Centers
5) The Water Model. Latest static links here.
6) USGS flood page (links for hydrology flooding and surge inundation SWATH network)
7) Equations for river modeling (supplemental material, not required for class)
8) Harvey monitoring: a. Harris County Flood Control District ; b. Texas DOT ; c. West Gulf River Forecast Center
- Tropical cyclone rain prediction
2) ETRAP
3) WPC QPF
4) WPC PQPF
5) WPC Excessive rainfall outlook
- Rain totals
2) NOAA's Tropical Rainfall Products
3) Archive Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Totals
- Rainfall rate
2) Satellite-derived (NRL)
3) Radar-derived. (Click on region, then one-hour total in left column)
- Dust and aerosol models
2) NASA GEOS. Also see this Goddard link. Information on the data assimilation of aerosol optical depth is in this article.
Here is a different visualization of the NASA product focused on Africa. Click here.
3) NRL's NAAPS. Information on this model is here.
- Teleconnection patterns
a. Michael Ventrice website
b. NOAA CPC MJO page
c. NOAA CPC dynamical models page
d. Australian BOM MJO page
2) NOAA teleconnection page
3) NOAA CPC El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) page
4) NOAA ENSO status and predictions
- Atlantic seasonal hurricane forecasts
2) NOAA
3) Tropical Storm Risk (Atlantic and Western Pacific)
4) All seasonal predictions (courtesy of seasonalhurricanepredictions.org)
- Medicanes
- Remote sensing ground post-analysis hazard assessments
2) NOAA global flood website
3) Dartmouth Flood Observatory (satellite estimates of inundation)