A look into hurricane Maria rapid intensification using Meteo-France's Arome-Antilles model.
Abstract
Category 5 Hurricane Maria created a string of humanitarian crises. It caused billions of dollars of damage over the Caribbean but is also one of the worst natural disaster in Dominica.The hurricane took approximately 29 hours to strengthen from a tropical storm to a major category 5 hurricane. Here we present real-time forecasts of high resolution (2.5 km) Arome-Antilles regional model forced by real-time ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System. The model was able to relatively represent well the rapid intensification of the hurricane whether it was in timing or in location of the eye and strength of its eye wall.We will present an outline of results.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AGUFMNH23E2858P
- Keywords:
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- 1910 Data assimilation;
- integration and fusion;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1922 Forecasting;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4313 Extreme events;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 4331 Disaster relief;
- NATURAL HAZARDS