Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch National Hurricane Research Project Report Archive

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National Hurricane Research Project Report Archive

Below you’ll find a list of all of the National Hurricane Research Project reports currently available, listed in chronological order.

Frank Revitte from NWS Slidell, as well as Frank Marks from NOAA/AOML/HRD, and Linda Pikula and Ashley Jefferson from NOAA Miami Regional Library, have provided several of the reports linked below. Rachel Knaff, Megan Troutman, and Kevin Micke assisted with digitizing and posting the reports. Questions can be directed to Kate.Musgrave AT colostate.edu.

NHRP #	Authors	Title	Year Published	Month Published
1	Staff of the NHRP	Objectives and basic design of the NHRP	1956	March
2	L. F. Hubert	Numerical weather prediction of hurricane motion	1956	July
2		Supplement: Error analysis of prognostic 500-mb. maps made for numerical weather prediction of hurricane motion	1957	March
3		Rainfall associated with hurricanes	1956	July
4		Some problems involved in the study of storm surges	1956	December
5		Survey of meteorological factors pertinent to reduction of loss of life and property in hurricane situations	1957	March
6	C. L. Jordan	A mean atmosphere for the West Indies area	1957	May
7	D. L. Harris and C. V. Lindsay	An index of tide gages and tide gage records for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States	1957	May
8	E. L. Fisher	Part I. Hurricanes and the sea surface temperature field	1957	June
8		Part II. The exchange of energy between the sea and the atmosphere in relation to hurricane behavior
9	E. M. Ballenzweig	Seasonal variations in the frequency of North Atlantic tropical cyclones related to the general circulation	1957	July
10	C. L. Jordan	Estimating central pressure of tropical cyclones from aircraft data	1957	August
11	D. T. Hilleary and F. E. Christensen	Instrumentation of National Hurricane Research Project aircraft	1957	August
12	H. V. Senn, H. W. Hiser and R. C. Bourret	Studies of hurricane spiral bands as observed on radar	1957	September
13	C. L. Jordan	Mean soundings for the hurricane eye	1957	September
14	B. I. Miller	On the maximum intensity of hurricanes	1957	December
15	B. I. Miller	The three-dimensional wind structure around a tropical cyclone	1958	January
16	R. R. Braham, Jr., and E. A. Neil	Modification of hurricanes through cloud seeding	1958	May
17	H. Riehl and R. C. Gentry	Analysis of tropical storm Frieda 1957. A preliminary report	1958	June
18	B. I. Miller	The use of mean layer winds as a hurricane steering mechanism	1958	June
19	R. L. Pfeffer	Further examination of the balance of angular momentum in the mature hurricane	1958	July
20	R. L. Pfeffer	On the energetics of the mature hurricane and other rotating wind systems	1958	July
21	E. M. Ballenzweig	Formation of tropical storms related to anomalies of the long-period mean circulation	1958	September
22	H. Riehl	On production of kinetic energy from condensation heating	1958	October
23	D. L. Harris	Hurricane Audrey storm tide	1958	October
24	Staff of the NHRP	Details of circulation in the high energy core of hurricane Carrie	1958	November
25	L. F. Hubert	Distribution of surface friction in hurricanes	1958	November
26	H. V. Senn and H. W. Hiser	A note on the origin of hurricane radar spiral bands and the echoes which form them	1959	February
27		Proceedings of the Board of Review and Conference on Research Progress	1959	March
28		A model hurricane plan for a coastal community	1959	March
29		Exchange of heat, moisture, and momentum between hurricane Ella (1958) and its environment	1959	April
30	P. J. Hebert and C. L. Jordan	Mean soundings for the Gulf of Mexico area	1959	April
31	J. S. Malkus and H. Riehl	On the dynamics and energy transformations in steady-state hurricanes	1959	August
32	D. L. Harris	An interim hurricane storm surge forecasting guide	1959	August
33	H. E. Graham and D. E. Nunn	Meteorological considerations pertinent to standard project hurricane, Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States	1959	November
34	W. Malkin	Filling and intensity changes in hurricanes over land	1959	November
35	H. U. Groening	Wind and pressure fields in the stratosphere over the West Indies region in August 1958	1959	December
36	N. L. Frank and C. L. Jordan	Climatological aspects of intensity of typhoons	1960	February
37	H. Riehl and R. Higgs	Unrest in the upper stratosphere over the Caribbean Sea during January 1960	1960	April
38	C. S. Gilman, K. R. Peterson, C. W. Cochrane, and S. Molansky	On quantitative precipitation forecasting	1960	August
39	H. E. Graham and G. N. Hudson	Surface winds near the center of hurricanes (and other cyclones)	1960	September
40	H. L. Kuo	On initiation of tropical depressions and convection in a conditionally unstable atmosphere	1960	October
41	J. A. Colon	On the heat balance of the troposphere and water body of the Caribbean Sea	1960	December
42	G. W. Cry	Climatology of 24-hour North Atlantic tropical cyclone movements	1961	January
43	H. Arakawa	Prediction of movements and surface pressures of typhoon centers in the Far East by statistical methods	1961	May
44	C. L. Jordan	Marked changes in the characteristics of the eye of intense typhoons between the deepening and filling states	1961	May
45	M. A. Alaka	The occurrence of anomalous winds and their significance	1961	June
46	H. Riehl and J. Malkus	Some aspects of hurricane Daisy, 1958	1961	July
47	S. L. Rosenthal	Concerning the mechanics and thermodynamics of the inflow layer of the mature hurricane	1961	September
48	J. A. Colon and Staff of the NHRP	On the structure of hurricane Daisy (1958)	1961	October
49	V. A. Myers and W. Malkin	Some properties of hurricane wind fields as deduced from trajectories	1961	November
50		Part I. Proceedings of the Second Technical Conference on Hurricanes, June 27-30, 1961, Miami Beach, Fla.	1962	March
50		Part II. Proceedings of the Second Technical Conference on Hurricanes, June 27-30, 1961, Miami Beach, Fla.	1962	March
51	H. G. Fortak	Concerning the general vertically averaged hydrodynamic equations with respect to basic storm surge equations	1962	April
52	H. F. Hawkins, F. E. Christensen, S. C. Pearce, and Staff of the NHRP	Inventory, use, and availability of NHRP meteorological data gathered by aircraft	1962	April
53	B. I. Miller	On the momentum and energy balance of hurricane Helene (1958)	1962	April
54	W. M. Gray	On the balance of forces and radial accelerations in hurricanes	1962	June
55	H. F. Hawkins	Vertical wind profiles in hurricanes	1962	June
56	S. L. Rosenthal	A theoretical analysis of the field of motion in the hurricane boundary layer	1962	June
57	R. H. Simpson	On the dynamics of disturbed circulation in the lower mesosphere	1962	August
58	K. Shimada	Mean sounding data over the western tropical Pacific Ocean during the typhoon season, and	1962	October
58	Z. Hashiba	Distribution of turbulence and icing in the tropical cyclone	1962	October
59	C. E. Schauss	Reconstruction of the surface pressure and wind fields of hurricane Helene	1962	October
60	R. H. Simpson, M. R. Ahrens, and R. D. Decker	A cloud seeding experiment in hurricane Esther, 1961	1962	November
61	H. Arakawa	Studies on statistical prediction of typhoons	1963	April
62	B. Ackerman	The distribution of liquid water in hurricanes	1963	June
63	H. Riehl	Some relations between wind and thermal structure of steady state hurricanes	1963	June
64	M. A. Alaka	Instability aspects of hurricane genesis	1963	June
65	J. A. Colon	On the evolution of the wind field during the life cycle of tropical cyclones	1963	November
66	B. I. Miller	On the filling of tropical cyclones over land, with particular reference to hurricane Donna of 1960	1963	December
67	E. J. Zipser, Jr.	On the thermal structure of developing tropical cyclones	1964	January
68	K. R. Peterson, H. V. Goodyear, and Staff of the Hydrometeorological Section	Criteria for a standard project northeaster for New England north of Cape Cod	1964	March
69		A study of hurricane rainbands	1964	March
70	S. L. Rosenthal	Some theoretical results which pertain to the upper-tropospheric vortex trains of the Tropics	1964	April
71	M. A. Lateef	Energy generation and flux processes associated with a weakening depression over the Gulf of Mexico	1964	June
72	J. A. Colon	On the structure of hurricane Helene (1958)	1964	December

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