Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Nowcasting

TROPICS Early Adopters with a tropical cyclone analysis and nowcasting focus seek to use TROPICS data to monitor storm location and evolution, as well as to diagnose storm structure.  Tropical cyclones form in traditionally data-void regions over the open ocean, which necessitates the use of satellite imagery and observations to analyze storm evolution. Since visible and infrared imagery may not easily reveal the convective structure or organization under the tropical cyclone cirrus canopy, high-frequency microwave observations from TROPICS can reveal changes in storm structure, which can improve estimates of storm intensity. 

Daniel Vila
National Institute for Space Research

Improved rainfall retrieval to monitor tropical convective lifecycle

Patrick Duran
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Analysis and monitoring of tropical cyclone structure and intensity change

James Darlow
Joint Typhoon Warning Center

Tropical cyclone position and intensity forecasting

Zhuo Wang
University of Illinois

Tropical Cyclone formation

Svetla Hristova-Veleva
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tropical cyclone formation, evolution, structure, interaction of physical processes

David Gallagher
Weather Stream Inc.

Near real-time precipitation measurements and nowcasting of global weather

Yalei You
University of Maryland

Linking TROPICS observations with observations from GPM constellation radiometers

Christian Kummerow
Colorado State University

Adding TROPICS to the GPROF algorithm to improve precipitation nowcasting

Simon Elliot
EUMETSAT

Precipitation retrieval in the TROPICS for rapidly evolving systems

John Forsythe
CIRA

Incorporating TROPICS into NOAA’s Advected Layer Precipitable Water product

Steve Petrie
Swinburne University of Technology

Incorporating TROPICS into an earth observation data platform

Fiona Smith
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Incorporating TROPICS data with lightning imagery for TC monitoring and warning
Technical Contact: Dr. Patrick Duran (patrick.t.duran@nasa.gov)
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