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

Gabriel Andres Vecchi1, Thomas L Delworth2, Xiaosong Yang3, Hiroyuki Murakami4, Wei Zhang5, Seth Underwood6, Fanrong Jenny Zeng4, Liwei Jia7, Sarah B Kapnick5, Karren Paffendorf5, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy5, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg5, Rym Msadek8, Gabriele Villarini9, Jan-Huey Chen4, Shian-Jiann Lin10, Lucas Harris11, Rich Gudgel6, Bill Stern5 and Shaoqing Zhang12, (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, GFDL, Princeton, United States, (4)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (5)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)GFDL/NOAA Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States, (10)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (11)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (12)Ocean University of China and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China