Other Tropical Cyclone Resources

Tropical Cyclone Warning Centers and local information

• Severe Weather Information Centre (WMO) - a WMO-sponsored portal to get official information about TCs in all of the global basins
• Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) - provides warnings for TCs in the Western Pacific, North Indian, South Indian, and Southern Hemisphere basins for Department of Defense installations
  • JTWC Warnings Feed
• Guam NWS TC Page - Information about TCs for the Guam NWS Area of Responsibility (includes Guam, the Marianas, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands)
• Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) TC Page - Information about TCs from the Philippines national weather service

 

Genesis Guidance

• Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Guidance Product (CIRA/RAMMB) - short-range (next 24 hr) probabilistic and categorical guidance on TC formation for North Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Western Pacific Basins; based on satellite and model predictors
  • Experimental Global Version
• HFIP TC Genesis - short-range model guidance on TC formation for global basins
• Paul Roundy (SUNY-Albany) Site - long-range (out to 30 days) probabilistic guidance on TC formation for global basins; based on convectively-coupled atmospheric waves and intraseasonal oscillations (e.g., MJO)

Forecast Aids for the Short to Intermediate Term

Deterministic Model Guidance - Track and Intensity

• South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Hurricane Model Plots
• Kerry Emanuel (MIT) Site - plots of track and intensity for global basins
• Clark Evans (UW-Milwaukee) Site - plots of track and intensity for North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins
• Brian Tang (SUNY-Albany) site - plots of track and intensity for North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, also features real-time preliminary verification and model trends

Ensemble Model Guidance

• NOAA ESRL Demo Ensemble TC Tracker - track guidance for global basins for ECMWF, UKM, CEOS, and GFS ensemble systems, plus FIM
• HFIP TC Ensembles (Michael Fiorino) - track guidance for global basins for NCEP GEFS, ESRL GFS (EnKF) , CMC CEPS, UKMO MOGREPS, and ECMWF EPS (TIGGE).
• GA Tech Site - features track and intensity guidance from the ECMWF EPS (TIGGE) for the North Indian, West Pacific, and Australian Basins

Model Fields

• Experimental forecast Tropical Cyclone Genesis Potential Fields  (FSU) - features model forecast fields for North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Basins for global (GFS, CMC, ECMWF) and regional TC models (HWRF, GFDL, NOGAPS)

Environmental Diagnostics

• CIRA/RAMMB TC Portal - features SHIPS and model-based diagnostics of large-scale TC environmental parameters
• HFIP TC Diagnostics Site - features SHIPS and model-based diagnostics of large-scale TC environment parameters

Remote Sensing Resources

General Sites Featuring Multi-Platform Satellite Imagery

• NRL TC Portal - excellent resource from the Naval Research Lab--Monterey: features visible, IR, passive microwave, scatterometery, etc.
• UW/CIMSS/SSEC TC Portal - features ability to overlay satellite imagery and various derived quantities such as satellite-derived wind shear and convergence on top of model tracks
• NESDIS TC Products - features floater imagery for all global TC basins, as well as additional satellite-derived TC products

Satellite-based Intensity Estimates

• UW-CIMSS Satellite Consensus Estimates
• CIRA/RAMMB TC Portal

Historical Tracks

• Unisys Weather - features track plots for historical storms for global basins (back to 1851 for North Atlantic, 1945 for Western Pacific and South Indian Ocean, 1949 for Eastern Pacific)
• NOAA Climate Services Track Generator - generate historical TC tracks with Google Maps

Blogs covering Tropical Cyclones

• Tropical Atlantic Update - a blog by CSU hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy