Abstract: The balance of kinetic energy under severe storm conditions is investigated with a subsynoptic-scale upper-air network. The general shape of vertical profiles of the kinetic energy.generation and dissipation is very similar ...

Abstract: The Joint Typhoon Warning Center's (JTWC) official and objective aid forecasts for the western North Pacific tropical cyclones during 1978?85 are evaluated. Forecast accuracy is measured by the forecast error, cross-track ...

Abstract: The energy transformations ore studied with a subsynoptic-scale upper air network for three types of severe storm environments under convective, nonconvective and frontal situations. The environment of the convective storms ...

Abstract: The impact of aircraft reconnaissance on tropical cyclone (TC) observation and forecasting is assessed. The motivation for this assessment is the termination of Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft reconnaissance in the ...

Abstract: Many numerical model verification schemes are handicapped by their inability to separate non-systematic errors and systematic errors. In this study, for a specific synoptic event, a statistical method is described to ...

Abstract: The U.S. Navy Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System (ATCF) is an IBM-AT compatible software package developed for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Guam. ATCF is designed to assist forecasters with the process ...