Tropical Cyclone Genesis Project
Parameter Climatologies
- Climatological TC Formation Probability
- Probability of One or More TC Formation by Month
- Vertical Shear (850-200 hPa)2
- Circulation (850 hPa)2
- Vertical Instability2
- Horizontal Divergence (850 hPa)2
- Percent Cold Cloud Coverage3
- Cloud-Cleared WV Brightness Temp3
- 1 Data source is ATCF Best Tracks, 1949-2005
- 2 Data source is NCEP GFS Analysis Fields (1995-2005)
- 3 Data source is GOES-E (1995-2005), GOES-W (1998-2005), and GMS-5/GOES-9/MTSAT (2000-2005) water vapor imagery