Rogers, R., S. Chen, J. Tenerelli, and H. Willoughby, 2003: A numerical study of the impact
of vertical shear on the distribution of rainfall in Hurricane Bonnie (1998). Mon. Wea. Rev …

Surgi, N., HL. Pan, and SJ Lord, 1998: Improvement of the NCEP global model over the
Tropics: An evaluation of model performance during the 1995 hurricane season. Mon. Wea …

… ——, and HC Weber, 1993: An extended analytic theory of tropical-cyclone motion in a
barotropic shear flow. Quart. J. … Weber … The vortex-specification algorithm used for the …

Davidson, NE, and Y. Ma, 2012: Surface pressure profiles, vortex structure and initialization
for hurricane prediction. Part II: Numerical simulations of track, structure and intensity …

… It is similar to the statistical model of Weber (2003) inasmuch as it uses the results of a
statistical evaluation of the predictions of all operationally available statistical and numerical …

The Weber barotropic model (WBAR) was originally developed using predefined 850–200-hPa
analyses and forecasts from the NCEP Global Forecasting System. The WBAR tropical …

Increased understanding of the importance of TC structure in dynamical, climatological and
prediction studies makes determination of TC size important. A new algorithm for the …

… Harry C. Weber … In the first part of the present study (Weber 2005, hereafter Part I) the
new model—the Probabilistic Ensemble System for the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones (PEST)—for …

A new barotropic prediction system for the tracks of tropical cyclones is presented. The
system (referred to as WBAR) consists of an initialization procedure, a vortex enhancement …

We investigate the existence of normal mode perturbations to barotropic vortices defined by
tangential velocity profiles that have been used in recent studies of tropical cyclone motion. …