What's New in Tropical Cyclone Modeling - An Update from the Trenches
Posted by cypresstx on 8/14/2015, 10:11 am
today's post on Masters' bog by Bob Henson

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3072

With each passing year, forecasters have ever-more-accurate numerical guidance on where tropical storms and hurricanes are most likely to track and how strong they'll get.  Several of the leading models have undergone noteworthy improvements over the past year. Track models have gotten steadily better over the last couple of decades, whereas improvements in forecasting intensity have been much more difficult to come by (see Figures 1 and 2 below), so a great deal of energy has been focused on the latter. Below is a summary of what's new and cool, based on interviews and email exchanges with the following experts:

summary at the link above
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