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Scholarly Uses of the FLIGHT+ Dataset

This page provides a list of scholarly works that have used the FLIGHT+ Dataset. Brief overviews of collaborations and research outcomes are also provided for some the users. If you have used the FLIGHT+ Dataset in a scholarly work, or are interested in beginning a new collaboration involving the FLIGHT+ Dataset, please contact ral-tcdp@ucar.edu.

Scholarly Works Using FLIGHT+

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Using FLIGHT+

  • Wunsch, K. E. D., and A. C. Didlake, Jr., 2018: Analyzing tropical cyclone structures during secondary eyewall formation using aircraft in-situ observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0197.1.
  • Didlake, A.C., P.D. Reasor, R.F. Rogers, and W. Lee, 2018: Dynamics of the Transition from Spiral Rainbands to a Secondary Eyewall in Hurricane Earl (2010). J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 2909-2929, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0348.1
  • Stevenson, S. N., K. L. Corbosiero, M. DeMaria, and J. L. Vigh, 2018: A 10-year survey of tropical cyclone inner-core lightning bursts and their relationship to intensity change. Wea. Forecasting, 33, 23-36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-17-0096.1. (pdf file)
  • Martinez, J., M. M. Bell, J. L. Vigh, R. F. Rogers, 2017: Examination of tropical cyclone structure and intensification with the FLIGHT+ Dataset from 1999 to 2012. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4401-4421, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0011.1. (pdf file)
  • Didlake, A. C., G.M. Heymsfield, P.D. Reasor, and S.R. Guimond, 2017: Concentric Eyewall Asymmetries in Hurricane Gonzalo (2014) Observed by Airborne Radar. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 729-749, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-16-0175.1.
  • Stern, D. P., G. H. Bryan, and S. D. Aberson, 2016: Extreme Low-Level Updrafts and Wind Speeds Measured by Dropsondes in Tropical Cyclones. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0313.1.

Datasets Using FLIGHT+

  • Vigh, J. L., E. Gilleland, C. L. Williams, D. R. Chavas, N. M. Dorst, 2018: TC-OBS: The Tropical Cyclone Observations-Based Structure Database (version 0.42, an alpha-level release). Tropical Cyclone Data Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. [Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6BC3X95.] Accessed dd mmm yyyy.

Brief Overviews of Collaborations and Research Outcomes Involving FLIGHT+

2012 - 2017: Jonathan Martinez (Collaborator), Relationship between inner core structure, intensity, and intensification

Mr. Martinez, who was at the time a senior undergraduate student at Florida State University, used v1.000 of the FLIGHT+ Dataset and a beta version of the FLIGHT+ Dataset in his 2013 Summer SOARS research project. He utilized the Best Track data contained in the FLIGHT+ Dataset to characterize the intensification rates of a large number of tropical cyclones and then bin them into categories such as intensifying, steady state, and weakening. He also binned by intensity itself, resulting in a a 2-dimensional matrix. Then he used used the high resolution flight level data from the FLIGHT+ Dataset to generate composites of radial wind profiles for the various bins, thereby examining how tropical cyclone wind structure is related to intensity and intensification. In August 2015 he presented on this research at the AMS Mesoscale Conference (recorded presentation). Mr. Martinez has continued to investigate this topic as part of his Masters Thesis research at the University of Hawaii under the direction of Dr. Michael Bell. He has recently moved to Colorado State University where he is now a PhD Candidate. His work has now been published in a journal article in Monthly Weather Review.

  • Martinez, J. and M. M. Bell, 2016: Examination of Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensification with the Extended Flight Level Dataset (FLIGHT+) from 1999 to 2012. Extended Abstract (pdf file), 32nd Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Paper 5D.5.
  • Martinez, J., 2016: Examination of Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensification with the Extended Flight Level Dataset (FLIGHT+) from 1999 to 2012. M.S. Thesis (pdf file), Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, 66 pp.
  • Martinez, J., M. M. Bell, J. L. Vigh, R. F. Rogers, 2017: Examination of tropical cyclone structure and intensification with the FLIGHT+ Dataset from 1999 to 2012. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4401-4421, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0011.1. (pdf file)

2015 - present: Dr. Daniel Stern (Collaborator)

Dr. Stern and collaborators used the FLIGHT+ Dataset (v1.0) in a study on extreme updrafts in tropical cyclones. He constructed a dataset of dropsonde profiles that observed extreme updrafts. He used the FLIGHT+ Dataset to determine the radial location of the updrafts relative to the radius of maximum wind.

  • Stern, D. P., G. H. Bryan, and S. D. Aberson, 2016: Extreme Low-Level Updrafts and Wind Speeds Measured by Dropsondes in Tropical Cyclones. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0313.1.

2017 - present: Ms. Stephanie Stevenson, Dr. Kristen Corbosiero (Collaborators), and Dr. Jonathan Vigh

Dr. Stevenson and Dr. Corbosiero used the FLIGHT+ Dataset (v1.1) in a study on the relationship of tropical cyclone inner core lightning and intensification. They used the FLIGHT+ Dataset to determine the radial location of the lightning strikes relative to the radius of maximum wind. Their work was recently published in a journal article in Weather and Forecasting.

  • Stevenson, S. N. and K. Corbosiero, 2016: Understanding the relationship between lightning outbreaks and tropical cyclone intensity change. Extended Abstract (pdf file), 32nd Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Paper 5D.3.
  • Stevenson, S. N., K. L. Corbosiero, M. DeMaria, and J. L. Vigh, 2018: A 10-year survey of tropical cyclone inner-core lightning bursts and their relationship to intensity change. Wea. Forecasting, 33, 23-36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-17-0096.1. (pdf file)

 


This page was last updated 28 September 2018 by Jonathan Vigh.