Created by Dan Chavas, Purdue Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

This tropical cyclone resource page provides a simple, organized list of links to the various sources of scientific information on active tropical cyclones -- observations, analyses, and forecasts -- globally.

If you have a recommended webpage that is not listed here, please email me.

Last updated: 4 Aug 2015

OFFICIAL FORECAST AGENCIES (US)

NHC: National Hurricane Center
JTWC: US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center

ONE STOP SHOPS

CIMSS: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological and Satellite Services (UW-Madison)
NRL: Observations and Analyses and forecasts (with archive)
Wunderground
Tropical Atlantic

OBSERVATIONS

Large-scale observations/analyses

Multi-product
PSU (e-wall): global maps and analyses
RAMMB basin-wide data: ATL, EPAC, WPAC
WSI: Intellicast map overlays

Synoptic
Griffin: GFS lots
Cordeira: GFS Dynamic Tropopause
MIT: Dynamic tropopause

Climate
Meridional modes
ENSO
Ventrice: Tropical intraseasonal variability and waves

Satellite observations
NOAA OSDPD: Lots of global satellite products
NRL NexSat: Lots of global satellite products
SSD: ATL; EPAC
NASA MSFC: GOES
EUMETSAT: Africa/Europe satellite
CIMSS: MIMIC global and regional total precip water (TPW)
OSDPD: blended (land+ocn) total precipitable water (TPW)
OSPO: Global rainfall estimate
NASA: Fancy HD satellite loops
STAR winds: OSCAT / WindSAT / ASCAT / SSM/I

Radar
NCAR RAL: United States
Antilles & Aruba / Bahamas / Barbados / Belize / Bermuda / Cuba / Curacao / Dominican Republic / Guyana / Jamaica / Martinique / Mexico / Panama / Puerto Rico / US Virgin Islands / Trinidad and Tobago
Canada
China / Japan / Taiwan
Australia
India
McNoldy: TC radar loops
TRMM: TC radar and precipitation structure

Sea Surface Temperatures/Potential Intensity
NOAA OSDPD: Global SST + anomalies
NHC: ATL + EPAC SST
AOML: Ocean heat content (OHC)
WXMAPS: Maximum potential intensity (MPI) by basin

Active storm observations/analyses

Multi-product
RAMMB: individual storm breakdown

Storm-tracking Satellite
SSD: ATL, EPAC, WPAC floaters
CIMSS: MIMIC storm-centered blended satellite loops
TRMM: Radar and precipitation structure
NASA: Imagery/blog

Dvorak
SSD: Dvorak classification of active storms

Wind field
HRD: H*Wind sfc, NOAA P3 flight (Latest flight data)
SSD: Satellite composite
WindSAT / ASCAT

Reconnaissance
Google Earth products, aircraft reconnaissance data

Phase Space
Hart: Tropical/Extratropical phase space diagrams

FORECASTS

Large-scale forecasts

FSU: GFS, NOGAPS, CMC, ECMWF, UKMET (Atl/Epac only)
WxU: GFS, ECMWF, NAM, RUC (HRRR)
NCEP: GFS, NAM, RAP
Navy: GFS, NOGAPS, COAMPS, WW3
Griffin: GFS lots
Cordeira: GFS Dynamic Tropopause
NCAR: WRF real-time model runs
ESRL: HRRR (formerly RUC)

Active storm forecasts

Tang: Forecast plots + verification
NCAR RAL: Global multi-model plots + SHIPS, Vortex msg
Evans (UW-M): ATL/EPAC multi-model plots, archives, Google maps
Kerry: CHIPS
FSU: GFDL, HWRF
EMC: HWRF TC-tracking output
FSU: Climatology-based TC landfall risk
OU CAPS: WRF-ARW experimental

Marine

NHC: Storm surge predictions (background)
NHC: Experimental Gridded (ATL/EPAC)
NCEP: Global/Regional wave height/wind speed forecasts

Genesis

NCEP/EMC: Cyclogenesis tracking page
RAMMB large-scale probabalistic: ATL, EPAC, WPAC
Roundy: Intraseasonal variability probabilistic
Montgomery: Wave pouches, Atlantic only

OTHER STUFF

Understanding these products

Organized PDF of all model info (a work in progress; Dan C., 26 June 2012)
Forecast model TC initialization and data assimilation (Gary Lackmann 05 Jul 2012)
Forecast model descriptions: Comprehensive; More technical, but old (2006); Early cycle track; Late cycle track; GFS ensemble; Intensity models
Satellite color enhancement descriptions
Forecast model historical verification and trends

MetEd COMET: Interactive tutorial on TC sat interpretation
Full detail of all NWP global/regional models (source: MetEd)
MetEd COMET: Interactive tutorial on NWP models
NRL: info on observing storm intensity
Tutorial on GOES satellite imagery

Historical

Unysis: Archived images, advisories
Historical Track Data: IBTrACS (all and WMO) / HURDAT / US Navy JTWC
IBTrACS browser
HURSAT: Archived satellite loops, 1978+
Storm Pulse: US landfalling hurricane maps
iCat: US historical hurricane damage estimator
US storm surge risk map by category