Bao, Shaowu, L. Bernardet, T. Brown, National Oceanic
and Atmopsheric Association/ESRL, D. Stark, L. Carson, NCAR
The Hurricane Weather
Research and Forecast (HWRF) system for hurricane prediction was adopted by the
National Weather Service (NWS)/ National Centers for Environmental Prediction
(NCEP)Ős Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) to address the NationŐs next generation
hurricane forecast problems.
The HWRF system is
composed of the WRF model software infrastructure, a modified version of the
Non-Hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (NMM) dynamic core, the Princeton Ocean Model
for Tropical cyclones (POM-TC), the NCEP/EMC coupler, a physics suite tailored
to the tropics, vortex initialization and pre- and post-processing
capabilities.
The Developmental
Testbed Center (DTC) serves as the bridge to fill the gap between the
operational and research communities to facilitate the transfer of new research
and development into operation.
DTC has partnered with EMC to provide community support of the HWRF
system through code releases, a users website, online and resident tutorials, documentation
and a help-desk service. In this presentation, the HWRF system and its
community support will be described and benchmark results (Reference
Configuration) of the community HWRF track and intensity forecasts will be
presented.