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Tropical Cyclones: Observations and Prediction (2nd Edition)
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Tropical Cyclones: Observations and Prediction (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 569

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Dr. Shumin Chen

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
Interests: tropical cyclone; heat flux; forecasting; atmospheric modelling
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Prof. Dr. Weibiao Li

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
Interests: tropical meteorology; air–sea interaction; weather and climate extremes; mesoscale vortex
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Dr. Yilun Chen

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
Interests: tropical cyclones; remote sensing; cloud microphysics; atmospheric physics; precipitation vertical structure
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Dr. Aoqi Zhang

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
Interests: precipitation; atmospheric radiation; cloud; life cycle
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Dr. Mingsen Zhou

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Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration (CMA), Guangzhou 510000, China
Interests: precipitation; tropical cyclone; sea fog; atmospheric modelling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tropical cyclones (TCs), which develop over warm tropical oceans, are among the most destructive natural phenomena. The associated strong winds and heavy precipitation concentrated around the TC center can cause serious casualties and significant economic losses in coastal areas, especially where such systems make landfall. Therefore, TC forecasting has been an area of active scientific research for decades. However, their prediction remains difficult in the fields of research and operational forecasting because their mechanism is not fully understood. One of the reasons is that high-quality observation data have not been fully analyzed. In particular, in air–sea fluxes, severe convection around the eyewall plays an important role in TC intensification, which should be attributed to TC dynamics. Therefore, observational and numerical research on TC dynamics is crucial for TC forecasting.

For this Special Issue, we invite original and review articles to advance our understanding of TC observation and prediction; topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) new developments in observation and modeling; (2) new developments in theory and forecasting; (3) air–sea interactions and cloud microphysics in TCs; (4) variation in TC tracking; (5) tropical cyclogenesis; (6) life cycle of TCs; (7) substructure and asymmetry of the eyewall; and (8) rainbands and eyewall preplacement.

Dr. Shumin Chen
Prof. Dr. Weibiao Li
Dr. Yilun Chen
Dr. Aoqi Zhang
Dr. Mingsen Zhou
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Keywords

  • tropical cyclones
  • precipitation
  • atmospheric modeling
  • atmospheric physics
  • atmospheric radiation
  • clouds
  • sea fog

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Observation and Numerical Simulation of Cross-Mountain Airflow at the Hong Kong International Airport from Range Height Indicator Scans of Radar and LIDAR
by Ying Wa Chan, Kai Wai Lo, Ping Cheung, Pak Wai Chan and Kai Kwong Lai
Atmosphere 2024, 15(11), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15111391 - 19 Nov 2024
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Apart from headwind changes, crosswind changes may be hazardous to aircraft operation. This paper presents two cases of recently observed crosswind changes from the range height indicator scans of ground-based remote sensing meteorological equipment, namely an X-band microwave radar and a short-range LIDAR. [...] Read more.
Apart from headwind changes, crosswind changes may be hazardous to aircraft operation. This paper presents two cases of recently observed crosswind changes from the range height indicator scans of ground-based remote sensing meteorological equipment, namely an X-band microwave radar and a short-range LIDAR. Both instruments have a range resolution down to around 30 m, allowing the study of fine-scale details of the vertical profiles of cross-mountain airflow at the Hong Kong International Airport. Rapidly evolving winds have been observed by the equipment in tropical cyclone situations, revealing high levels of turbulence and vertically propagating waves. The eddy dissipation rate derived from radar spectrum width indicated severe turbulence, with values exceeding 0.5 m2/3 s−1. In order to study the feasibility of predicting such disturbed airflow, a mesoscale meteorological model and a computational fluid dynamics model with high spatial resolution are used in this paper. It is found that the mesoscale meteorological model alone is sufficient to capture some rapidly evolving airflow features, including the turbulence level, the waves, and the rapidly changing wind speeds. However, the presence of reverse flow could only be reproduced with the use of a building-resolving computational fluid dynamics model. This paper aims at providing a reference for airports to consider the feasibility of performing high-resolution numerical simulations of rapidly evolving airflow to alert the pilots in advance for airports in complex terrains and the setup of buildings. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tropical Cyclones: Observations and Prediction (2nd Edition))
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