Funding: Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT), U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the auspices of the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP).

Current research team: Isaac Ginis, Tetsu Hara, Biju Thomas, Yalin Fan, Richard Yablonsky, Zhitao Yu, Lou Licate and Seung-Hyon Lee.

Collaborators: M. Bender, R. Tuleya, and T. Knutson (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA), A. Khain (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Naomi Surgi, and Hendrik L. Tolman (National Centers for Environmental Prediction/NOAA), Chris Fairall, and Jian-Wen Bao (Earth System Research Laboratory/NOAA), Carey L. Dickerman, and Roger Stocker (Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center) and Sok Kuh Kang (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI)).