Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program

 

HFIP Program Documents

Recent Publications

Program Documents

 

Recent Publications

25 Feb 2025 HFIP Annual Report 2023
13 Jan 2025 Evaluation of Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) Error Statistics Stratified by Internal Structure and Environmental Metrics
09 Oct 2024 HAFS ensemble forecast in AWS cloud
06 June 2024 Lifetime Performance of the Operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) for North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
27 Mar 2024 Sensitivity of HAFS-B Tropical Cyclone Forecasts to Planetary Boundary Layer and Microphysics Parameterizations
13 Mar 2024 Lifetime Performance of the Operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model for North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
October 2023 The HAFS Ensemble in Real-time on the Cloud (HERC) 2023 - Accomplishments and Lessons Learned
17 Oct 2023 Evaluation of Experimental High-Resolution Model Forecasts of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Using Object-Based Metrics
06 Oct 2023 Improving the Intensity Forecast of Tropical Cyclones in the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System
12 May 2023 A review of recent advances (2018–2021) on tropical cyclone intensity change from operational perspectives, part 1: Dynamical model guidance
10 May 2023 A review of recent advances (2018–2021) on tropical cyclone intensity change from operational perspectives, part 2: Forecasts by operational centers
13 Jan 2023 Factors Influencing the Track of Hurricane Dorian (2019) in the West Atlantic: Analysis of a HAFS Ensemble
14 Feb 2023 A Forecast Cycle–Based Evaluation for Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Forecasts by the Operational HWRF Model
14 Feb 2023 Performance of an Improved TKE-Based Eddy-Diffusivity Mass-Flux (EDMF) PBL Scheme in 2021 Hurricane Forecasts from the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System