Solanar Graduate Program✦Track 03 · Tropical Meteorology & Hurricane Science✦Dynamics · Prediction · Hazards · Research✦A++ Graduate Curriculum✦80% Hard Mastery✦Higher Learning Mathematics Integrated✦NAIB Research Mentor✦
Graduate inquiry with operational relevance

Research & Capstone

Capstone work must be falsifiable, reproducible, quantitatively defensible and explicit about uncertainty and limitations.

Research Domains

Dynamics · genesis · intensity · observations · NWP/DA · hazards · verification · communication.

Evidence Standard

Literature synthesis · data provenance · methods · math/statistics · reproducibility · limitations.

Operational Test

Apply the finding to at least one archived hurricane case without overgeneralizing beyond the evidence.

Defense

Defend assumptions, alternative explanations, uncertainty and operational significance.