Improved GOES Utilization for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting

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Improved GOES Utilization for Tropical Cyclone
Forecasting

• GOES data since 1970s, GOES-8 launched in 1994
• New applications still being developed
• Dvorak calibration
• Improvement to SHIPS and Rapid Intensity Index
• Extend GOES back to 1982
• New predictors, complex EOF analysis
• Tropical cyclone genesis forecasting
• NESDIS TC formation probability product

Contributions from DeMaria, Knaff, Schumacher,
Kaplan, Brown, Gallina, Kossin NESDIS, CIRA,
HRD, NHC