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Solanar Tropical Dynamics LabTransparent educational calculations · Track 03

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Tropical Laboratory

These calculations illustrate graduate concepts; they are not official hurricane forecast tools.

Coriolis Parameter & Inertial Period

Latitude (degrees)

Great-Circle Track Error

Forecast latitude

Forecast longitude

Observed latitude

Observed longitude

Ensemble Track Spread

Latitudes

Longitudes

Illustrative Wind-Stress Sensitivity

10-m wind V (m/s)

Air density ρ (kg/m³)

Drag coefficient Cd