Hello from a new member

[jfranklin]

Hello all. I gather that it is customary for new members to introduce themselves here.

My name is James Franklin. Some of you may recognize my name from NHC advisory products. I am here, not representing the Hurricane Center, but as a private citizen (mandatory disclaimer: the opinions expressed in my posts represent my personal views and are not necessarily those of my agency). Nonetheless, if you have questions about NHC, I'll do my best to answer them.

Before becoming a Hurricane Specialist in 1999, I worked for 17 years as a research meteorologist with NOAA's Hurricane Research Division. During that time, I made about 80 penetrations into hurricane eyewalls. Prior to that, I received Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was born in Miami, and my first hurricane experience was Cleo in 1964.

I hope to have some interesting discussions with you all.

James

[Coriolis]

James

Thanks for registering here at WOW. I know that you will find the members here will enjoy your knowledge and will have questions. You hope that you will post often as the members here are very friendly and many are just beginning to learn meteorology or just want to know a little more of it. I know once the hurricane season is upon us - you will be busy - but I thank you for being on of our members.

Jim

[jeffl]

Welcome James,

I graduated last Aug with a met degree from Texas A&M, and currently work for the Harris County Flood Control District in Houston Texas. I work closely with the Houston/Galveston NWS, and local OEM's as we are trying to develop a comprehensive flood warning system for the county which will hopefully improve flood warning lead times and overall public awarness. Research interest include: mesoscale and severe weather, tropical cyclones, and flash flooding.

For a research project for my TC class I wanted to do something on nocturnal core rainfall events from dying TC'S, however neither myself or my TC prof could find anything on these events within the journals. Has NHC done any kind of research into these kind of events (TS Charley, Del Rio TX 1998, TS Allison, Houston TX 2001). Anyways I did the report on meso-vortexes in hurricane eyewalls and the damage streaks over S FL during Andrew. Just curious what your thoughts are on nocturnal core rainfall events as they seem to be documented but have no research or "community" backing or any kind of research?

Jeff Lindner

[jfranklin]

Hi Jeff,

As you know, rainfall distribution and prediction is one of the least-understood aspects of tropical cyclones. With the primary emphasis on track and intensity prediction, this is not something that has gotten much attention at TPC (or elsewhere, for that matter). I'm afraid I don't have much to offer you on this topic. Some of the forecasters at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center might have some insights, though, if you haven't already spoken with them.

James

(Mandatory disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this post represent my personal opinion, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my agency.)

[CalUWxBill]

Jeff, I don't know what you have found, these two may be of interest to you. I haven't read them so not entirely certain on how much they'll help.

Edward B. Rodgers and Harold F. Pierce. 1995: A Satellite Observational Study of Precipitation Characteristics in Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 2587–2599

F.A. Lajoie and I.J. Butterworth. 1984: Oscillation of High-Level Cirrus and Heavy Precipitation around Australian Region Tropical Cyclones. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 535–544.

[CalUWxBill]

Also try scholar.google.com

many times you just get abstracts, but there are plenty of full articles as well.