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Total Precipitable Water: Can It Aid Hurricane Rainfall Prediction?. Haiyan Jiang 1 , Edward J. Zipser 1 , Jeffrey B. Halverson 2 , and Robert Rogers 3
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Total Precipitable Water: Can It Aid Hurricane Rainfall Prediction? Haiyan Jiang1, Edward J. Zipser1, Jeffrey B. Halverson2, and Robert Rogers3 1Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah2Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland3NOAA Hurricane Research Division, Miami, Florida Contact:h.jiang@utah.edu Acknowledgements: 1. NASA New Investigator and TRMM/PMM programs. 2. Mark DeMaria (CSU) 63rd IHC March 2-5 2008
Dataset: • 290 landfalling TCs during 1998-2006 • 3 hourly 3B42 rainfall product • TPW is from NOGAPS analysis Results:
Univ. Of Utah TRMM-based Topical Cyclone Precipitation Feature (TCPF) Database Haiyan Jiang, Edward J. Zipser, and Chuntao Liu Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UtahContact:h.jiang@utah.edu Acknowledgements: NASA Hurricane Science Research Program (HSRP)