A Race to Intensify: Competing Influences From Coastal Downwelling and Vertical Ocean Mixing on Hurricane Intensity in NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System

Lewis J Gramer, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Ghassan Alaka, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Key Biscayne, FL, United States, Jun Zhang, University of Miami, Miami, United States, Andrew Hazelton, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, United States and Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States