Map Disco: 18 Oct 2013


Topic: North Hemispheric Pattern Change, The Full Story



The Past


GFS Analysis and Forecast: North Pacific

Synoptic Overview(DT/Irro.Wind/PW,MSLP,Jets/500-hPa vort./CI,850-200-hPa shear/925-500-hPa thrm.vort.,thick,925-hPa hgt.) (16 Sep - 11 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Alicia Bentley)


Recent Upstream Players


GFS Analysis and Forecast: West Pacific

Synoptic Overview(DT/Irro.Wind/PW,MSLP,Jets/500-hPa vort./CI,850-200-hPa shear/925-500-hPa thrm.vort.,thick,925-hPa hgt.) (05 Oct - 26 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Alicia Bentley)
Synoptic Overview(PV Isen 310/330/350) (05 Sep - 26 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Philippe Papin)

GFS Analysis and Forecast: North Pacific

Synoptic Overview(DT/Irro.Wind/PW,MSLP,Jets/500-hPa vort./CI,850-200-hPa shear/925-500-hPa thrm.vort.,thick,925-hPa hgt.) (05 Oct - 26 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Alicia Bentley)
200 hPa Standardized Temperature Anomalies, Temp, Heights (4 Oct - 26 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Kyle Griffin)
Dprog/Dt Synoptic Overview (DT,Low-Level Cyclonic Vort/MSLP,Jets) (Time Verifying 00 UTC 17 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Kyle Griffin)

Other In House Graphics

Brightness Temperatures (Satellite and Model Analysis/Forecast) (10 Oct - 24 Oct 2013) - NASA/NCEP (Philippe Papin)
Baroclinic Conversion and Barotropic Conversion (16 Oct - 23 Oct 2013) - NASA/NCEP (Julian Quinting)
Eddy Kinetic Energy Flux (Con/Div from total and ageostrophic wind) (16 Oct - 23 Oct 2013) - NASA/NCEP (Julian Quinting)
Energy Flux and Local Generation of EKE (16 Oct - 23 Oct 2013) - NASA/NCEP (Julian Quinting)

ESRL Graphics

Time Averaged ESRL Graphics (15 Sep - 15 Oct 2013) - NCEP

GFS Time-Longitude Plots (Hovmollers)

250 hPa Meridional Wind (Total) (18 Sep - 25 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Kyle Griffin)
250 hPa Meridional Wind (Anomalies) (18 Sep - 25 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Kyle Griffin)

Recent Typhoons

TC Fitow - 90 Knots - Cat 2 (30 Sep - 06 Oct 2013)
TC Danas - 125 Knots - Cat 4 (03 Oct - 08 Oct 2013)
TC Nari - 105 Knots - Cat 3 (09 Oct - 15 Oct 2013)
TC Wipha - 115 Knots - Cat 4 (10 Oct - 15 Oct 2013)
TC Francisco - 140 Knots - Cat 5 (16 Oct - Current)

More on Typhoon Wipha

Surface Observations of Typhoon Wipha over Japan (18 UTC 15 Oct 2013) - (Naoko Kitabatake)
Radar Image of Typhoon Wipha approaching Japan (18 UTC 15 Oct 2013) - (Naoko Kitabatake)
CIMMS Blog Entry on Typhoon Wipha (15 Oct 2013) - University of Wisconsin-Madison / SSEC
Vertical Cross-section of Typhoon Wipha Approaching Landfall in Japan (12 UTC 15 Oct 2013) - GFS (Andrea Lang)
Upper-Air Soundings for Tateno, Japan during TC Wipha (00 UTC 15 Oct - 00 UTC 17 Oct 2013) - University of Wyoming

Phase Space of Typhoon Wipha

Thermal Phase Space Analysis of Wipha through various models (GFS, CMC, NAVGEM) (06 UTC 8 Oct - 12 UTC 23 Oct 2013) - Florida Sate University (Bob Hart)
Comparison with TC Igor (2010) (00 UTC 8 Sep - 00 UTC 27 Sep 2010) - Florida Sate University (Bob Hart)
Comparison with TC Sandy (2012) (00 UTC 22 Oct - 00 UTC 03 Nov 2012) - Florida Sate University (Bob Hart)

More on Super Typhoon Francisco

CIMSS Blog Entry on Super Typhoon Francisco (19 Oct 2013) - University of Wisconsin-Madison / SSEC
---- Zoomed in Suomi NPP Vis/IR Imagery of Francisco (1548 UTC 18 Oct 2013) - University of Wisconsin-Madison / SSEC
TRMM Overpass on Francisco (1002 UTC 18 Oct 2013) - Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA


The Downstream Response


GFS Analysis and Forecast: North America

Synoptic Overview(DT/Irro.Wind/PW,MSLP,Jets/500-hPa vort./CI,850-200-hPa shear/925-500-hPa thrm.vort.,thick,925-hPa hgt.) (05 Oct - 26 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Alicia Bentley)


The Future


GFS Analysis and Forecast: West Pacific

Dprog/DT(500 vort) (05 Oct - 24 Oct 2013) - NCEP (Kyle Griffin)


Other Miscellaneous Products


SPC Meso Archive
National Snow Analyses - NOHRSC
World Climate Index Map
Mike Ventrice's TRMM Precipitation / MJO Filtered VP200 hPa / 200 hPa Winds
Wyoming Sounding Page
Twister Data
National Buoy Data Center
Storm Prediction Center Meso-analysis
Penn State's EWALL Model Page
High Resolution Rapid Refresh Home Page
Kyle Griffin's Maps: Main Page
Ron-Mctaggart Cowan's DT Maps and Coupling Index
Heather Archambault's 2013 GFS Analyses
Tom Galarneau's Real Time Diagnostics
RAP-UCAR Real-Time Weather Data
Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information
PSD Maproom - ESRL
NeXt Generation Weather Lab - College of DuPage
Free Relief Maps
Modis Satellite Imagery World Viewer