Hurricane Papers

[Mikey Gribble]

I have been trying to find a few papers on tropical meteorology (relevant to forecasting hurricanes). I have actually had a little bit of trouble finding anything worth while and was hoping that some people on here could share links to some good papers on hurricane forecasting. If there are any really good books somebody could recommend I would be interested in that too. I think this could be helpful to a lot of people. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[MClarkson]

one of your best options is to read every NHC forecast discussion for a couple of years. You will learn a LOT.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

I appreciate the help, but I am looking for something a little more in-depth than that. I've read NHC products for quite a while. This months issue of BAMS had an article in it on a joint NASA project on tropical cyclones. I don't have the article with me, so I forget the acronym for the project, but what I am looking for is articles/papers/case studies similiar to that. I'm not looking for entry level information. Moderate would be the best for me, but I could stumble through something a little more advanced.
There has to be a lot more information out there than I'm coming across. On mid latitude extratropical cyclones and tornadoes there are thousands of papers available covering virtually everything on every scale. Surely there has to be a bunch of papers/case studies floating around on hurricanes, aren't there?

 

[Chris Foltz]

Michael,

You're probably referring to the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) project. I was fortunate enough to be in Senegal for 6 weeks as part of this project though my role was incredibly small. There will be several papers that evolve from this project over the next several months/years. You can keep track of it and read some of the papers here:

http://namma.msfc.nasa.gov/

Hope this helps somewhat.