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Shaowu Bao

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Publications

Corresponding Articles: 8

Shaowu Bao authored and/or contributed to the following articles/publications.

A numerical study of the effect of hurricane wind asymmetry on storm surge and inundation

The influence of the asymmetric structure of hurricane wind field on storm surge is studied with five types of numerical experiments using a three-dimensional storm surge model. The results from the case of Hurricane Floyd (1999) show that Floyd-induced peak surge would have been much higher had the region of maximum wind rotated 30–90° counterc...

Shaowu Bao

Improving operational hurricane prediction with NCEP's Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast (HWRF) system: future advancements, community involvement and transition of research to operations through the Development Testbed Center (DTC)

The HWRF system became operational at NCEP for the 2007 hurricane season. Future plans to advance the HWRF system for continued improvement of track and for improving prediction of storm intensity, storm structure and coastal inundation are underway at NCEP and will be discussed. An integral part of this effort will require the involvement and c...

Shaowu Bao

Impact of the Hydrometeor Vertical Advection Method on HWRF’s Simulated Hurricane Structure

The impact of different hydrometeor advection schemes on TC structure and intensity forecasts is examined through the evaluation of HWRF’s simulation of tropical cyclones using the operational Ferrier–Aligo (FA) microphysics that uses total condensate advection versus the same scheme but with separate hydrometeor advection (FA-adv). Results show...

Shaowu Bao
Institutions National Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

Community HWRF Users' Guide v3.5a August 2013

The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) system for hurricane prediction (HWRF) is an operational model implemented at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide numerical guidance to the National Hurricane Center for the forecasting of tropical cyclones' track, intensity, and structu...

Shaowu Bao
Institutions National Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

Community HWRF Users Guide V3.5A

The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) system for hurricane prediction (HWRF) is an operational model implemented at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide numerical guidance to the National Hurricane Center for the forecasting of tropical cyclones’ track, intensity, and structu...

Shaowu Bao
Institution National Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR

Community Support and Transition of Research to Operations for the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model

The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) is an operational model used to provide numerical guidance in support of tropical cyclone forecasting at the National Hurricane Center. HWRF is a complex multicomponent system, consisting of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) atmospheric model coupled to the Princeton Ocean Mode...

Shaowu Bao
Institutions National Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

The Use of Composite GOES-R Satellite Imagery to Evaluate a TC Intensity and Vortex Structure Forecast by an FV3GFS-Based Hurricane Forecast Model

The HAFS model is an effort under the NGGPS and UFS initiatives to create the next generation of hurricane prediction and analysis system based on FV3-GFS. It has been validated extensively using traditional verification indicators such as tracker error and biases, intensity error and biases, and the radii of gale, damaging and hurricane strengt...

Shaowu Bao

Community HWRF Users’ Guide V3.5a

The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) system for hurricane prediction (HWRF) is an operational model implemented at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide numerical guidance to the National Hurricane Center for the forecasting of tropical cyclones’ track, intensity, and structu...

Shaowu Bao