Part 1: State-of-the-art Observations for Advancing TC Research
1. Advancing the Understanding and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones Using Aircraft Observations
2. Use of Satellite Observations in Tropical Cyclone Studies
Part 2: Advances in Numerical Weather Predictions for Tropical Cyclones
3. Overview of the NOAA/NCEP Operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) Modelling System
4. Physical Processes in Tropical Cyclone Models
5. Sub-Grid Vertical Turbulent Mixing in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
6. Air-Sea Turbulent Flux Parameterizations in Tropical Cyclone Models
7. Present State of Knowledge of Electrification and Lightning within Tropical Cyclones and Their Relationships to Microphysics and Storm Intensity
8. The Role of Land Surface Processes on Tropical Cyclones: Introduction to Land Surface Models
9. The Role of Land Surface Processes on Extreme Weather Events: Land Data Assimilation System
10. Ocean Component of the HWRF Coupled Model and Model Evaluation
Part 3: Advanced Assimilation and Vortex Initialization Techniques
11. Introduction to Data Assimilation Techniques and Ensemble Kalman Filter
12. Data Assimilation and Predictability of Tropical Cyclones
13. Data Assimilation: Comparison and Hybridization between Ensemble and Variational Methods
Part 4: Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
14. Operational ACCESS-TC: Vortex Specification, 4DVAR Initialization, Verification and Structure Diagnostics
15. Physical Initialization in Tropical Cyclone Forecasting
16. Monitoring and Forecasting of Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Ocean
17. Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasts Models at IMD and Their Performance
18. Tropical Cyclone Research over the North Indian Ocean: Impact of Data and Vortex Initialization in High Resolution Mesoscale Models
19. Superensemble Technique for Tropical Cyclone Prediction
20. Advanced Diagnostics for the HWRF Hurricane Modelling System
Part 5: Advances in Tropical Cyclone Research
21. Introduction to Hurricane Dynamics: Tropical Cyclone Intensification
22. Recent Advances in Tropical Cyclogenesis
23. The Hurricane Boundary Layer
24. Balanced Dynamics in Tropical Cyclones
25. Quasi-balanced Dynamics in Tropical Cyclones
26. Using Budgets to Study Tropical Cyclones
27. The Storm Surge Prediction over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea: A Review
Index