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Tropical Cyclone Research over the North Indian Ocean: Impact of Data and Vortex Initialization in High Resolution Mesoscale Models

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Advanced Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction

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The nomenclature of TCs is different in different parts of the world. In the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, they are known as ‘hurricane’ and in western Pacific as ‘typhoon’. In the North Indian Ocean (NIO) region, they are termed as ‘tropical cyclone’. Though, considered as a relatively rare phenomenon in any basin, annual frequency of occurrence is quite steady with an average variation of ±7 %. Approximately, 80 tropical storm reach cyclonic storm intensity every year that cause an average number of 20,000 deaths and a total economic loss of $6-7 billion (Southern, 1979). Almost all these storms form within 25° latitude on both sides of the equator except in the equatorial region of 5° S to 5° N due to negligible Coriolis force.

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Acknowledgement

We owe thanks to Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) for the needful financial support to carry out the research on tropical cyclones over NIO and duly acknowledge. Also acknowledge the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) support for the conference. The authors also acknowledge to IMD for providing TCs observations. The authors acknowledge NCAR, NCEP and DTC for providing the ARW, NMM and HWRF modelling systems and global analysis and forecast products used in the present study.

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Mohanty, U.C., Osuri, K.K., Pattanayak, S. (2016). Tropical Cyclone Research over the North Indian Ocean: Impact of Data and Vortex Initialization in High Resolution Mesoscale Models. In: Mohanty, U.C., Gopalakrishnan, S.G. (eds) Advanced Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-94-024-0896-6_18

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