Date	Presentations	Speakers
Apr 15, 2020	Rapid Co-evolution of the Coastal Ocean and Atmosphere in Hurricanes and Typhoons	Scott Glenn (Rutgers)
Mar 18, 2020	Advanced DA Techniques for Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors from GOES 16/17 in the HWRF	Agnes Lim (Wisconsin)
Feb 19, 2020	Evaluating the Effect of Model Physics on Hurricane Rapid Intensification Forecasts in HWRF	Jun Zhang (AOML)
Jan 22, 2020	How do Localized, Sub-vortex-scale Events within a Hurricane Contribute to a Vortex (system)-scale Rapid Intensity Changes?	Sai Bhalachandran (Stanford)

2019

Date	Presentations	Speakers
Sep 04, 2019	Development of the Ground-based Radar Data Assimilation Capacity within the HWRF Hybrid EnVar Data Assimilation System to Improve the Land-falling Hurricane Predication	Xuguang Wang (OU)
Aug 07, 2019	From Toy Models to NWP: Leveraging HWRF for Data Assimilation Research	Jon Poterjoy (UMD)
Jun 12, 2019	Impact of the Anomalously Warm Gulf of Mexico on Hurricane Michael (2018) Intensity	George Halliwell (AOML)
Feb 20, 2019	Emerging Airborne Observational Strategies for Improved Tropical Cyclone Predication	Peter Black (EMC)

2018

Date	Presentations	Speakers
Oct 31, 2018	Real-time Display and Diagnostic System Characteristcs of the Hurricane Intensity Errors in the HWRF Model and Predicatabilty Implications	Paul Kucera (NCAR) and Chankh Kieu (UI)
Oct 03, 2018	Diagnosing Eyewall Eddy Forcing in Intensification of a Tropical Cyclone	Ping Zhu (FIU)
Sep 19, 2018	HRD's HFIP Program	Jonathan Zawislak (HRD)
Sep 05, 2018	DTC Update	Kathryn Newman and Evan Kalina (NCAR)
Aug 22, 2018	HWRF and HMON Upgrade Brief from EMC	Avichal Mehra (EMC)
Aug 08, 2018	Real-time Reservation Plans	Georg Grell (ESRL) and Gus Alaka (AOML)
Jul 25, 2018	CIRA Updates for the 2018 Season for Wind Speed Probabilities and to NHC's Operational Guidance Suite	Kate Musgrave and Andrea Schumacher (CIRA)
Jul 11, 2018	Real-time Reservation Plans	Biju, Weiquo, Zhan, Morin
Jun 13, 2018	HWRF Simulation in the COASTAL ACT	Zaizhong Ma (IMSG)
Mar 07, 2018	A Top Down Pathway to SEF in Simulated TCs	Bryce Tyner (FIU)
Feb 07, 2018	Evaluation of 13 km Global fvGFS on Hurricane Prediction	Morris Bender, Matthew Morin, Andrew Hazelton, and Shian-Jiann Lin (GFDL)
Jan 10, 2018	Limits of Predictability	Christopher Landsea and John Cangialosi (NHC)

2017

Date	Notes and Presentations	Speakers
Nov 29, 2017	Summary Notes The Kinematics of Rapidly Intensifying Hurricanes in Moderate Vertical Wind Shear	David Ryglicki (NRL)
Nov 15, 2017	Summary Notes A Developmental Framework for Improving Hurricane Model Physics using Aircraft Observations	Jun Zhang (AOML)
Nov 04, 2017	Summary Notes	Team Leads
Oct 18, 2017	Summary Notes	Team Leads
Oct 04, 2017	Summary Notes HFIP Social Science	Jennifer Sprague (OPPSD)
Sep 20, 2017	Summary Notes Preliminary Evaluation of Hurricanes Harvey & Irma Evaluation of FfsFV3 on Hurricane Prediction	M. Bender and A. Hazelton (GFDL)
Sep 06, 2017	Summary Notes Key Features of Tropical Genesis using Satellite DA	Zhuo Wang (Univ. of IL)
Jul 26, 2017	Summary Notes	Team Leads
Jul 12, 2017	Summary Notes Statisical RI Prediction-Recent Model Results	John Kaplan (AOML)
Jun 28, 2017	Summary Notes HFIP 2017 Real-time Reservations Azimuth Dist. Deep Convection, Factors & RI	F. Hobbs, T. Brown (Jet), and Hua Chen (AOML)
Jun 14, 2017	Summary Notes	Team Leads
May 31, 2017	Summary Notes Recent COAMPS-TC Development and Future Plans	James Doyle (NRL)
Mar 08, 2017	Summary Notes Validation of rapid intensification forecasts from deterministic regional dynamic models	Jonathan Moskaitis (NRL)
Feb 22, 2017	Summary Notes Verification of Ensemble-based Probabilistic Intensity Change Forecasts HMON (HNMMB): Development of a new Hurricane model for NWS/NCEP operations	Ryan Torn (SUNY-Albany) and Avichal Mehra (EMC)

2014

Date	Notes and Presentations	Speakers
Dec 17, 2014	Explicitly-Coupled Cloud Physics and Radiation Parameterizations and Subsequent Testing in HWRF	Greg Thompson
Nov 05, 2014	Overview of TCMT Activities and Preliminary Results from the 2014 Demo	Paul Kucera and Christopher Williams
Oct 22, 2014	Optimizing Observations and Observing Stategies to Better valuate and Improve Model Physical Processes	Joseph Cione
Oct 08, 2014	The HWRF Development Process	Ligia Bernardet
Sep 24, 2014	Some Model Physics Influences on Tropical Cyclone Size	Robert and Yizhe Peggy Bu
Aug 27, 2014	The JPL Tropical Cyclone Information System Part 2	Svetla Hristova-Veleva
Aug 27, 2014	The JPL Tropical Cyclone Information System Part 1	Svetla Hristova-Veleva
Aug 13, 2014	Development of Weighted/Corrected Consensus Forecasts for TC Track and Intensity Using the GPCE Technique	James Goerss
Jul 30, 2014	HWRF + COAMPS-TC + GFDL Combined Ensemble Retrospective Test	Jon Moskaitis, Alex Reinecke, Jim Doyle
Jul 30, 2014	HFIP Joint HWRF/COAMPS-TC/GFDL Multi-Model Regional Ensemble System	Zhan Zhang, Jon Moskaitis, Matt Morin
Jun 18, 2014	A Robust Representation of Rain Microwave Radiances and Scatterometer Winds for Data Assimilation	Ziad Haddad
May 28, 2014	Sensitivity to Humidity Data Assimilation for Hurricane Intensification and Heavy Rains	T. N. Krishnamurti
May 14, 2014	Tropical Cyclone Verification Code Intercomparison Project (TVCIP)	Mike Fiorino
Apr 30, 2014	2014 Upgrades to the HWRF Modeling System, Further Enhancements to the High-Resolution HWRF	Vijay Tallapragada
Apr 16, 2014	Major Priorities Over the Next 3-5 Years for the HFIP Post-processing and Verification Team	Tim Marchok, Mark Demaria, and David Zelinsky
Apr 16, 2014	Impacts of Model Top Altitude on Satellite Data Assimilation for Hurricane Forecasts	Vijay Tallapragada and Jian-Wen Bao
Apr 16, 2014	Priorities for DA/Ensemble Strategic Teams(s)	Jeff Whitaker and Xuaguang Wang
Feb 12, 2014	Retrospective and Near Real-time Tests of GSI-based EnKF-VAR Hybrid Data Assimilation System for HWRF with Airborne Radar Data	Xuaguang Wang
Jan 22, 2014	RDITT Results	Sim Aberson
Jan 22, 2014	Aircraft Doppler Versus Flight Level Data Impact Study using FY13 Operational HWRF with Vortex Initialization and One-way Hybrid Data Assimilation	Vijay Tallapragada
Jan 22, 2014	Impact of Aircraft Reconnaissance on Convection-permitting Hurricane Intensity Prediction by WRF-EnKF at PSU	Yonghui Weng
Jan 08, 2014	Representing Multi-scale Interactions in HWRF Modeling System - Rationale of Developing Basin-scale Modeling System	Xuejin Zhang

2013

Date	Notes and Presentations	Speakers
Dec 18, 2013	Impacts of Model Top Altitude on Satellite Data Assimilation for Hurricane Forecasts	Xiaolei Zou
Dec 04, 2013	Vortex-scale Data Assimilation with HEDAS in the 2013 Season and Impacts of Parameterization Perturbations	Altug Aksoy
Dec 04, 2013	Performance of Hi-res GFS-based NOAA Models v ECMWF, 2013 Summer Demo -- WPAC	Mike Fiorino
Nov 20, 2013	Performance of Hi-res GFS-based NOAA Models v ECMWF, 2013 Summer Demo -- LANT/EPAC	Mike Fiorino
Nov 20, 2013	The Impact of Ice Phase Cloud Parameterizations on Tropical Cyclone Prediction	Yi Jin
Nov 06, 2013	Performance of the 2013 Operational HWRF for the North Western Pacific and North Indian Ocean Basins	Vijay Tallapragada
Sep 04, 2013	Satellite Data Assimilation in Regional Models: Promises and Challenges	Xiaolei Zou
Aug 21, 2013	Potential Use of Probabilistic Storm Position Forecasts for More Informative Track Forecast Cones	Wesley Smith
Aug 07, 2013	A Reformulation of the Logistic Growth Equation Model (LGEM) for Ensemble ans Extended Range Intensity Prediction	Mark DeMaria
Jul 24, 2013	A New Dynamical Vortex Initialization Scheme with Warm Model Startup for Real-Time Forecasts of TCs	Yuqing Wang
Ap 24, 2013	Evaluation of Shear-relative Hurricane Structure from the 2012 HWRF Baseline Model	Paul Reasor
Apr 24, 2013	TC Inner-core Structure and Intensification	Robert Rogers
Apr 24, 2013	The Operational HWRF System: Assymetric Intensification of Hurricane Earl	Hua Chen
Apr 10, 2013	Improved Telescope Nesting for Hurricane Forecasting	Samual Trahan
Apr 10, 2013	Pre-implementation T&E of Proposed Upgrades for 2013 HWRF	Young Kwon
Mar 27, 2013	Uncertainty of Tropical Cyclone Best-Track Information	Ryan Torn
Mar 27, 2013	Are Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts Improving?	Johnathan Moskaitis
Mar 13, 2013	Unified Air-Sea Interface in Fully Coupled Atmospere-Wave-Ocean Models for Storm Predictions	Shuyi Chen
Mar 13, 2013	How Good are Best "Tracks" Estimating Uncertainty in the Atlantic Hurricane Database	Chis Landsea
Feb 27, 2013	OSSE Evaluation of Targeted Ocean Observing Strategies for Improving Ocean Forecast Model Initialization	George Halliwell
Feb 13, 2013	A Robust Representation of Rain Microwave Radiances for Data Assimilation and to Estimate the 1st Few Radial Modes of Heating, Vertical Motion, Precipitable Water, Total Ice and Rain	Ziad Haddad
Feb 13, 2013	Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) 2012 Campaign Summary	Scott Braun
Jan 30, 2013	Has Intensity Forecat Guidance Improved?	Mark DeMaria

2012

Date	Notes and Presentations	Speakers
Oct 24, 2012	Stream 1.5 Runs of SPICE	Kate Musgrave
Oct 24, 2012	HWRF Time-stepping in real-data and semi-idealized simulations	Robert Fovell
Oct 10, 2012	The impact of stochastic physics on global ensemble TC forecasts	Jeff Whitaker
Sep 26, 2012	Assimilation of Airborn Doppler Radar Observations Using the Unified GSI-based Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation System for HWRF	Xuguang Wang
Sep 26, 2012	Ensemble -based genesis guidance	Tim Marchok
Sep 05, 2012	Verifying HWRF Forecasts using Synthetic Satellite Imagery	Dave Zelinsky
Sep 05, 2012	Intensity Forecasting Experiment 2012 Hurricane Field Campaign	Paul Reasor
Aug 22, 2012
Aug 08, 2012	Impact of Ocean Observations on Hurricane Irene Intensity Forecasts	Scott Glenn
Jul 25, 2012	A look at operational and experimental global deterministic and ensemble forecasts for tricky Tropical Storm Debby	Ed Szoke Stan Benjamin
Jul 25, 2012	Impacts of Surface Fluxes on Cloud-Permitting Hurricane Analysis and Prediction	Fuqing Zhang
Jul 11, 2012	Large-Scale Environment Diagnostics and Verification	Kate D. Musgrave
Jul 11, 2012	HWRF Surface Layer Evaluations	Eric W. Uhlhorn Joseph J. Cione
Jun 20, 2012	HFIP 2012 Global GSI/EnKF hybrid configuration	Jeff Whitaker
Jun 06, 2012	Assimilating precipitation observations into HWRF while avoiding the pitfalls of microphysical representations	Ziad Haddad
Jun 06, 2012	Coupling, diagnosing, and improving the POM-TC ocean model component of NOAA's HWRF and GFDL coupled hurricane forecast models	Richard M. Yablonsky
Jun 06, 2012	Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Modeling for Improving Tropical Cyclone Prediction Models	Isaac Ginis
May 23, 2012	Upper Ocean Impacts and Air-Sea Fluxes During Hurricane Earl	Nick Shay
May 23, 2012	Web-ATCF	Buck Sampson
May 09, 2012	2012 AHW Stream 1.5 Retrospective Results	Ryan D. Torn
Apr 25, 2012	High-frequency Tropical Cyclone Forecasts: Intensity	David Zelinsky
Apr 25, 2012	Improving the HWRF model physics using observations and model diagnostics	Jun Zhang
Apr 11, 2012	Track sensitivity to microphysics and radiation	Robert Fovell
Apr 11, 2012	Applications of SHIPS Diagnostic Files	Mark DeMaria
Mar 28, 2012	FY2012 Implementation of High-Resolution 3km Triple-Nested HWRF System	Vijay Tallapragada
Mar 28, 2012	2012 Upgrades to the Operational GFDL Hurricane Model	Morris A. Bender
Mar 14, 2012	A pseudo-ensemble hybrid assimilation system for HWRF	Xuyang Ge
Feb 15, 2012	Evaluation of a Real-Time Storm Surge Guidance Ensemble	Jesse Feyen Jamie Rhome
Feb 15, 2012	High Temporal Frequency Diagnostics	David Zelinsky
Feb 01, 2012	HWRF sensitivity to cumulus schemes	Ligia Bernardet

2011

Date	Notes and Presentations	Speakers
Dec 21, 2011	Understanding Model Predictions and Predictability of Hurricane Intensity	Shuyi S. Chen
Dec 07, 2011	HEDAS: The HWRF Ensemble Data Assimilation System	Sim Aberson
Dec 07, 2011	HWRF Code Management and Support	Ligia Bernardet
Oct 26, 2011	Detailed Verifications in Support of HWRF Model Improvements	Stan Goldenberg
Oct 26, 2011	Performance and Development of the UW-NMS in 2011	William Lewis
Oct 12, 2011	An Overview of COAMPS-TC Development and Real-Time Tests	James D. Doyle

Strategic Plans

HFIP 5-year Strategic Plan: 2019-2024 | June 2019
HFIP Strategic Plan: Years Five to Ten - Updated | Nov. 2014
HFIP Strategic Plan: Years One to Five | Dec. 2010

Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunity: Round 3 of Research to Operations Initiative (NOAA-NWS-NWSPO-2018-2005325): NGGPS and HFIP | Document (PDF) | Online Link

HFIP Stream 1.5 Documentation

Stream 1.5 Concept of Operations

Tier 1 Delivery Instructions

Tier 2 Delivery Instructions

2014

Timeline for 2014 Stream 1.5

List of Retrospective Test Cases

For more information, including documents, modeling group participants, and model forecast data, refer to the Tropical Cyclone Modeling Team (TCMT) 2014 Retrospective HFIP Testing webpage.

2013

Timeline for 2013 Stream 1.5

List of Retrospective Test Cases

For more information, including documents, modeling group participants, and model forecast data, refer to the Tropical Cyclone Modeling Team (TCMT) 2013 Retrospective HFIP Testing webpage.

2012

Timeline for 2012 Stream 1.5

Guidance for 2012 Stream 1.5 Retrospective Test Cases

For more information, including documents, modeling group participants, and model forecast data, refer to the Tropical Cyclone Modeling Team (TCMT) 2012 Retrospective HFIP Testing webpage.

2011

Timeline for 2011 Stream 1.5

List of Retrospective Test Cases

For more information, including documents, modeling group participants, and model forecast data, refer to the Tropical Cyclone Modeling Team (TCMT) 2011 Retrospective HFIP Testing webpage.

2010 HFIP Demo System Overview

HFIP Brochure