Hurricane forecasting tools           1) NHC
          2) NOAA OSPO
  • Ocean Heat Content
          1) From HYCOM model
          2) University of Miami . For all the University of Miami Atlantic ocean products, click here.
          3) OHC archives: a. Florida State University (1998-2014); b. University of Miami (see bottom, 1998-current);  c. NOAA AOML (2011-2017)
  • Satellite-derived surface winds
          1) ASCAT (METOP only)
          2) a. Windsat at REMSS ; b. Windsat at NOAA NESDIS STAR
          3) a. KNMI scatterometer products, including ScatSat ; b. KNMI wind product viewer 
          4) a. SMAP at REMSS ; b. SMAP at NOAA NESDIS STAR
          5) GPM
          6) AMSR-2 . All AMSR-2 products
          7) SAR winds. Also see this link: SAR coastal winds. To learn more about SAR, read the SARS Users Manual . 
  • CIMSS satellite products
          1) Homepage
          2) MIMIC products
              a. MIMIC TC
              b. MIMIC TPW
              c. MIMIC TPW layers: i) 850 mb-surface; ii) 700-850 mb; iii) 500-700 mb; iv) 300-500 mb  
          3) Diurnal pulsing
          4) SATCON intensity estimates
          5) Saharan Air Layer (SAL)
          6) Tropical Overshooting Tops (TOT)
          7) Automated Storm Center Retrieval (ARCHER)
          8) ARCHER Eyewall Replacement Cycle (ERC) product
  • Satellite imagery
          1) NHC satellite links
          2) GOES East (from NOAA STAR)
          3) GOES East visible imagery floater (from University of Wisconsin)
          4) GOES East products (from College of DuPage)
          5) GOES East and Himawari 8 products (from CIRA)
          6) Variety of satellite products, including lightning overlays and ABI products (from NASA SPORT)
          7) Tropical Tidbits imagery
  • Total Precipitable Water
         1) MIMIC TPW
         2) TPW prediction
  • Genesis products (experimental)
          1) CIRA
          2) NOAA NESDIS's Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product
          3) FSU model genesis guidance and FSU graphics of individual models
          4) NCEP/EMC Cyclogenesis and Cyclone Tracking website
          5) Probability product from GEFS (courtesy Alan Brammer)
          6) Barons Hurricane Index
  • ​Statistical intensity guidance
          1) SHIPS (NHC link). The input to SHIPS is here.
          2) Radii wind probabilities (NHC link)
  • Surface-derived tropical cyclone wind products
          1) Multiplatform Tropical Cyclone Surface Winds Analysis (MTCSWA) --- NOAA website
          2) Multiplatform Tropical Cyclone Surface Winds Analysis (MTCSWA) --- CIRA website, click on storm name, scroll down
  • Reconnaissance flights 
          1) Radar/dropwindsonde composites (intermittent from HRD research flights, click on storm name)
          2) Vertical cross-sections of radar and wind (intermittent from HRD research flights, click on latest flights, then click on figure links)
          3) Hurricane Hunter information
               a. From Tropical Tidbits website
               b. From Tropical Atlantic website 
               c. Raw data from National Hurricane Center (vortex data message can be useful) 
  • Storm structure and classification
          1) Phase space diagrams (courtesy Bob Hart FSU)
          2) Dvorak (from NOAA NESDIS)
          3) Advanced Dvorak technique (from CIMMS)
  • Radar
​          1) National radar (click on region to zoom in)
          2) Long radar loops of tropical cyclones, real-time and archive (courtesy of Brian McNoldy, University of Miami)
  • Satellite-derived radar reflectivity
          1) Large-view
          2) Mid-Atlantic Development Region
          3) U.S. East Coast
          4) Eastern Antilles
          5) Caribbean Sea
          6) Gulf of Mexico
  • Storm surge
          1) NHC products (look for surge product when landfall threat exists)
          2) PSURGE
          3) Qrisq Analytics
          4) CERA 
          5) ESTOFS
          6) GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System --- info on all natural disasters coordinated with United Nations)
  • Storm surge monitoring and Inland flooding guidance
          1) a. Advanced Hydrology Prediction System (AHPS) b. Information on AHPS
          2) NOAA tide gauges
          3) USGS gauges
          4) NWS River Forecast Centers
          5) The Water Model. Latest static links here.
          6) USGS flood page (links for hydrology flooding and surge inundation SWATH network)
          7) Equations for river modeling (supplemental material, not required for class) 
          8) Harvey monitoring: a. Harris County Flood Control District ; b. Texas DOT ; c. West Gulf River Forecast Center
  • Tropical cyclone rain prediction
          1) Weather Prediction Center (WPC) tropical products
          2) ETRAP
          3) WPC QPF
          4) WPC PQPF
          5) WPC Excessive rainfall outlook 
  • Rain totals
          1) AHPS rain totals
          2) NOAA's Tropical Rainfall Products
          3) Archive Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Totals
  • Rainfall rate
          1) Satellite-derived (NOAA)
          2) Satellite-derived (NRL) 
          3) Radar-derived. (Click on region, then one-hour total in left column) 
  • Dust and aerosol models
          1) European Copernicus project
          2) NASA GEOS. Also see this Goddard link. Information on the data assimilation of aerosol optical depth is in this article.
               Here is a different visualization of the NASA product focused on Africa. Click here.
          3) NRL's NAAPS. Information on this model is here.
  • Teleconnection patterns
          1) Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO)
                  a. Michael Ventrice website
                  b. NOAA CPC MJO page
                  c. NOAA CPC dynamical models page
                  d. Australian BOM MJO page
          2) NOAA teleconnection page
          3) NOAA CPC El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) page
          4) NOAA ENSO status and predictions
  • Atlantic seasonal hurricane forecasts
          1) Colorado State University
          2) NOAA
          3) Tropical Storm Risk (Atlantic and Western Pacific)
          4) All seasonal predictions (courtesy of seasonalhurricanepredictions.org)
  • Medicanes
          1) Mediterranean Cyclone Centre 
  • Remote sensing ground post-analysis hazard assessments
          1) NOAA emergency response imagery
          2) NOAA global flood website 
          3) Dartmouth Flood Observatory (satellite estimates of inundation)