Toward a unified system for understanding, predicting and projecting regional hurricane activity

Gabriel Andres Vecchi1, Thomas L Delworth2, Xiaosong Yang3, Hiroyuki Murakami3, Wei Zhang4, Seth Underwood5, Fanrong Jenny Zeng3, Liwei Jia6, Sarah B Kapnick4, Karren Paffendorf4, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy4, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg4, Rym Msadek7, Gabriele Villarini8, Jan-Huey Chen3, Shian-Jiann Lin9, Lucas Harris10, Rich Gudgel5, Bill Stern4 and Shaoqing Zhang11, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)GFDL/NOAA Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (10)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (11)Ocean University of China and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China