This proposal was created at the beginning of the second semester (in early January) to give a sort of outline for my upcoming work in this semester.
Recycled Materials
Topic Question:
How do certain factors affect the ability for tropical systems to rapidly intensify, and does storm size, determined by the radius of hurricane and tropical storm force winds, have an effect on the potential tropical systems to rapidly intensify?
Abstract
Bibliography
Mentor: Jason Dunion
New Stuff
Guiding Questions
How can storm size be used as a factor in the revising hurricane intensity indexes?
What is the ‘best’ method of using storm size as a factor?
How can this information best be displayed to the public?
Field Work Sites
List of Possible Interviewees
- Kerry Emanuel, MIT
- Richard Lindzen, MIT
- Alan Plumb, MIT
- Adam Sobel, Columbia
- Jenni Evans, Penn State
- Mark A. Bourassa, FSU
- Robert Hart, FSU
- Sharon E. Nicholson, FSU
- Phil Klotzbach, CSU
- William Gray, CSU
- Sim Aberson, HRD
- Mike Black, HRD
- Sylvie Lorsolo, HRD
- Joe Cione, HRD
- Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan, HRD
- John Gamache, HRD
- John Kaplan, HRD
- Rob Rogers, HRD
- Eric Uhlhorn, HRD
- James Franklin, NHC
- Lixion Avila, NHC
- Jack Beven, NHC
- Michael Brennan, NHC
- Daniel Brown – Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NHC
- Richard Pasch, NHC
- Stacy R. Stewart, NHC
Possible Libraries to Visit
- Penn State University, Earth and Mineral Sciences Library
- Yale University, Graves Forestry and Environmental Studies Library
- Columbia University – (actually, everything is online at http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/)
- WSCU – Ruth Haas Library
- MIT – Lingdren Library
- Rose Center for Earth and Space – NYC
Workplace
- Possible, but unlikely – I have a chance to work with a weather-focused Hedge Fund in New Canaan, CT
Designing
- Designing of a new hurricane intensity index will be the main point of the project, perhaps sending such a project to the various people listed above.
Internet Databases
- Various university databases, databases from the National Hurricane Center, the Hurricane Research Division, and NOAA
Master Plan
- Mostly weekends, perhaps days off school to visit nearby locations/field sites
- Most of my other classes will be winding down post-Spring break, as will my other research project – the last half of March/all of April will be the main time for focused work on this project – it’s going to be very much, work on it when I have the time
Documentation
- Sketchbook
- Reproduction of archival material
- Case study analysis
- Article abstract
- E-mail correspondence
