Goals of this ProjectThis project seeks to extend the standardize all available hurricane flight level data into files using a common NetCDF format. Once standardized, data are being processed and parsed into radial legs in a similar fashion as the Willoughby-Rahn dataset (which ends in 2001). The goal is to eventually have a dataset of similar quality as the W-R dataset to facilitate many new research uses. Initially effort is being focused on completing the new extended dataset for the period 1999-2012. In time, a data rescue effort may be mounted to extend this further back in time. This initial effort (for 1999-2012) is being funded by the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI2.0) as a component of the " Improved Database of Tropical Cyclone Size Parameters" project. Funding- Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI2.0), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS)
Investigators- PI: Jonathan L. Vigh (NCAR/RAL/JNT)
Collaborators- Christopher Williams (NCAR/RAL/JNT)
- Neal Dorst (NOAA/AOML/HRD)
- Hugh Willoughby (Florida International University)
- Frank Marks, Jr. (NOAA/AOML/HRD)
- Daniel Chavas (Princeton University)
- Russell St. Fleur (NOAA/AOML/HRD)
- John Knaff (NOAA/NESDIS/RAMMB)
- Barry Damiano (NOAA/AOC)
Dataset Users- Jonathan Martinez (SOARS protégé, now at University of Hawaii)
- Michael Bell (University of Hawaii)
- Daniel Stern (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, soon to be Naval Research Laboratory)
- Chris Slocum (Colorado State University)
Project Scoping and Milestones for the Extended Flight Level Dataset |