STAR Science ForumFriday, April 21 1200 pm

WWB Room 707“Satellite Applications to Tropical

Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting”

Mark DeMaria, Kate Maclay, John Knaff, Ray Zehr and Tom Cram

NOAA/NESDISCenter for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMM)

and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

The STAR Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology (RAMM) Branch has a number of on-going projects to better utilize satellite data for tropical cyclone analysis and forecasting. Five papers on this topic that will be presented at the upcoming AMS conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Applications include tropical cyclone intensity and wind structure forecasting, diagnosis of a special type of storm called an annular hurricane, tropical cyclone genesis studies and the impact of pressure wind relationships on the detection long term trends in tropical cyclone intensity. Three of these papers will be presented at the Science Forum, and the other two will be briefly summarized.