The JPL Tropical Cyclone Information System: A Wealth of Data for Quickly Advancing the Physical Understanding and Forecasting of Hurricanes.

Svetla M Hristova-Veleva1, Peggy Li2, Brian Knosp3, Quoc A Vu1, Joe Turk3, William L Poulsen4, Ziad S Haddad1, Bjorn Lambrigtsen5, Bryan W Stiles2, Tsae-Pyng J Shen3, Noppasin Niamsuwan3, Simone Tanelli3, Ousmane Sy3, Hui Su1, Deborah Vane3, Yi Chao6, Philip S Callahan7, R. Scott Dunbar2, Michael t Montgomery8, Mark Boothe8, Vijay Tallapragada9, Samuel Trahan10, Anthony J Wimmers11, Robert Holz12, Jeffrey S. Reid13, Hua Leighton14, Frank Marks15, Tomislava Vukicevic16, Saiprasanth Bhalachandran17, Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan18, Andres Navarro19 and Francisco J Tapiador20, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, (7)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (9)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (10)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (11)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (12)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (13)Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (14)NOAA/AOML/HRD/RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (15)NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Key Biscayne, FL, United States, (16)University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, (17)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (18)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, (19)UCLM, Earth and Space Sciences Research Group, Toledo, Spain, (20)Univ de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain