Links for METEO 6310 - Tropical Meteorology

• Bob Hart's Model Analysis Page (http://moe.met.fsu.edu/tcgengifs)
• Brandon's Africa Hovmoller Page (http://www.met.utah.edu/zipser/bkerns/namma/hov.html)
• CIMSS low, mid-level cloud track winds (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/atlantic/winds/wg8ir.html)
• NRL Tropcal Satellite Page
• QUIKSCAT Ocean Page
• TPC satellite page

• FSU Tropical Models Page
• NCDC NOMADS
• NCEP AMMA
• NRL NAAPS Aerosol Modeling
• Penn State E-Wall Models

• Tropical Prediction Center (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov)
• Navy satellite page (http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html)
• Hurricane Research Division (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd)
• U of Wyoming Sounding page (http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html)
• U of U Weather Center
  • Global Analysis and Forecast Page
  • GDAS2 Tropical Products

• Willoughby et al., J Atmos Sci 1982: Concentric Eye Walls, Secondary Wind Maxima, and the Evolution fo the Hurricane Vortex
• Jorgensen et al., J Atmos Sci 1984: Mesoscale and Convective-Scald Characteristics of Mature Hurricanes.
  • Part I: General Observations by Research Aircraft
  • Part II: Inner Core Structure of Hurricand Allen (1980)
• Barnes er al., J Atmos Sci 1983: Mesoscald and Convective Structure of a Hurricane Rainband
• Kerry Emanuel aper I found while doing homework: Emanuel, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2003: Tropical Cyclones

• Wind Climatologies and current data for the tropical Pacific and Atlantic (same link as GDAS above)
• UU interface for NCEP and ERA40 reanalyses
• Current SST and climatology (http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/cmb/sst_analysis/#_sstplots)
• Detailed SST and ocenographic analyses for the past several days (http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hhc)
• Rainfall climatology for global tropics and subtropics (http://www.met.utah.edu/zipser/pub/projects/trmm/index.html)

• Reed, R. J., et al., J Atmos Sci 1977: The Structure and Properties of African Wave Disturbances as Observed During Phase III of GATE
• Thompson, Robert M., et al., J of the Atmos Sciences 1979: Structure and Properties of Synoptic-Scale Wave Disturbances in the Intertropical Convergence Zone of the Eastern Atlantic
• Yanai, et al., J of the Atmos Sciences 1973: Determination of Bulk Properties of Tropical Cloud Clusters from Large-Scale Heat and Moisture Budgets

• Frank, William M., and Roundy, P. E. Monthly Weather Review 2006: The Role of Tropical Waves in Tropical Cyclogenesis
  • Wheeler, Matthew and Kiladis, George N. J. of the Atmos. Sciences 1999: Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves: Analysis of Clouds and Temperature in the Wavenumber-Frequency Domain
• Sippel, Jason A., and Nielsen-Gammon, John W. Monthly Weather Review 2006: The Multiple-Vortex Nature of Tropical Cyclogenesis
• Evan, Amato T, et al. Geophys. Res. Letters 2006: New evidence for a relationship between Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and African dust outbreaks
  • Dunion, Jason P., and Velden, Chris S. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 2004: The impact of the Saharan air layer on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity