1.   2. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG Rick Baker, Mayor Office of the MayorWelcome to the 63rd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference! I would like to welcome each of you attending…

Slide 1 Climate Change and Hurricane Intensity and Frequency: What is the controversy? Dr. Steven M. Lazarus Florida Institute of Technology Marine and Environmental Science…

Slide 1 5 Kelvin Waves 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Theory 5.3 Observations of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves 5.3.1 Power Spectra 5.3.2 Kelvin Waves over Africa 5.3.3 Kelvin Waves…

Slide 1 Global Signatures of the “Little Ice Age” and “Medieval Climate Anomaly” and Plausible Dynamical Origins Michael E. Mann Penn State University with contributions…

Forecasting of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Using a Kilo-Member Ensemble M.S. Defense Jonathan Vigh Acknowledgements Graduate Adviser: Dr. Wayne Schubert Master’s Committee…

Climate Change and Hurricane Intensity and Frequency: What is the controversy? Dr. Steven M. Lazarus Florida Institute of Technology Marine and Environmental Science Since…

Lessons learned from THORPEX THORPEX working group on Data Assimilation and Observing Strategies Florence Rabier (Météo-France and CNRS, France, Co-chair) Pierre Gauthier…