Ocean Model Impact Tiger Team: Ocean Model Impact Study for Hurricane Forecasting

Hyun-Sook Kim1, Peter Black2, Nicolas Bond3, Patrick J Fitzpatrick4, George R Halliwell Jr5, Isaac Ginis6, Steven R Jayne7, Bin Liu1, Avichal Mehra8, Sue Chen9, Elizabeth Sanabia10, Lynn K Shay11, Vijay Tallapragada12, Biju Thomas6, Jun Zhang13, Lin Zhu14 and Jili Dong12, (1)IMSG at EMC/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA UAS Program, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington, United States, (4)Mississippi State University, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (6)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (7)WHOI, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NRL, CA, United States, (10)US Naval Academy, Department of Oceanography, Annapolis, MD, United States, (11)RSMAS/University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (12)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (13)NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, (14)NCEP, MD, United States