Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program

 

HFIP Annual 2021

Meeting Objectives

The primary objective of this meeting is to discuss the overall progress and accomplishments made under HFIP, focussed on development of the next generation Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) outlined in the 2019 HFIP Strategic plan with potential future steps. The current state of operational hurricane modeling capabilities and challenges, forecasters' needs and activities supporting operations as well as the results from the 2021 hurricane season will also be discussed.

Agenda Outline

Day 1 (Nov 15): Programmatic Updates; Forecaster needs and activities supporting operations.
Day 2 (Nov 16): Updates from Current Operational Forecast; Special Session on 2021 challenging cases; Socio-economic Session; Guest Talk. 
Day 3 (Nov 17): HFIP supported external research Reports.
Day 4 (Nov 18): Real-time experiment results; Observations for HAFS; HAFS developments and Future steps.