2011 NOAA Hurricane Conference

National Hurricane Center
Miami, Florida
November 29-December 1

Opening/2011 Season in Review

Review of the 2011 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Season Stacy Stewart, NHC
Review of the 2011 Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season Todd Kimberlain, NHC
2011 Preliminary NHC Forecast Verification John Cangialosi, NHC
Review of the 2011 Central Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season and Preliminary Verification Robert Ballard, WFO Honolulu
2011 OPC Operations-The Extratropical Perspective Scott Prosise, OPC
2011 HPC Operations for Tropical Cyclones Ed Danaher, HPC
2010 and 2011 SPC Operations for Tropical Cyclones Roger Edwards, SPC
NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) 2011 Seasonal Summary and Plans for 2012 Jim McFadden et al, AOC

Science Presentations

Using SLOSH as the boundary condition for the Community Hydrologic Prediction System's hydraulic forecasts for the tidal Hudson River during Hurricane Irene Dave Vallee, NERFC
Use of mini-MEOWs to initialize and improve hydrologic forecast model output John Schmidt, SERFC
Assessment of the impacts of dropwindsonde and supplemental radiosonde observations on GFS track forecasts for Hurricane Irene Michael Brennan, NHC; Sharanaya Majumdar, University of Miami
Assessment of the impacts of supplemental upper air soundings on tropical cyclone model forecasts Nelsie Ramos, NHC
Preliminary results from the ABXT demonstration project in support of hurricane coupled modeling products and improvement in guidance to NHC hurricane specialists Peter Black, Naval Research Lab and SAIC, Inc.; Elizabeth Sanabia, US Naval Academy
HEDAS: A Hurricane Ensemble Data Assimilation System Sim Aberson et al, NOAA/OAR/AOML/HRD
Summary of NOAA's 2011 Hurricane Field Program (IFEX)

Shirley Murillo, NOAA/OAR/AOML/HRD

Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting System (HWRF) Version 3.2 model developments and verification Stanley Goldenberg, Xuejin Zhang, et al, NOAA/OAR/AOML/HRD
Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) Shirley Murillo, NOAA/OAR/AOML/HRD
Early observations from the NOAA Assessment for Hurricane Irene Frank Marks, Assessment Team Leader, OAR/AOML/HRD
Update on Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project Social Science Initiative Bill Read, NHC and Jen Sprague, NWS Strategic Policy and Planning
2012 Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference Lt Col Bill Carle, OFCM

Action Items

Item 11-1

Update on NOAA Storm Surge Roadmap 2011 Successes and 2012 Plans

Social Science Team Update: Assessing Current Storm Surge Information from the Public Perspective
Team Update: Presentation and Recommendations from NWS Storm Surge
Team and Technical Working Group for Experimental Storm Surge Warning Presentation 1, Presentation 2
Update: Probabilistic Hurricane Inundation Surge Height (PHISH) Guidance Products
Update: 2012 SLOSH Development Efforts
Update: SLOSH Basin Status and Updates
Item 11-3 Development efforts towards Inundation Mapping/Graphics Prototype
Item 11-15 The Transition to AWIPS II and the Impacts toMaking Software Changes
Item 11-16 Tropical Operations Training Course update for 2012 Tropical Season
Item 11-17 Creating a Comprehensive, Nationally-supported Tropical Training Program
Item 11-18 Creating a Tropical Operational Short Course/Workshop for ERMETs
Item 11-20 Prototyping a Watch/Warning Collaboration Tool
Item 11-28 2011 Project Update on Expression of Uncertainty Initiative
Item 11-29 2011 project update/: Tropical Cyclone Potential Impacts Graphics