Regional association IV (North America, Central America and the Caribbean) hurricane operational plan: 2007 edition
At its first session (San Juan, May 1978), the RA IV Hurricane Committee took a novel approach to its problems by drawing up an RA IV Hurricane Operational Plan with a view to ensuring the most effective co-operation and co-ordination between the countries in preparing and issuing meteorological forecasts and warnings of all tropical cyclones affecting the area. The plan was shortly thereafter adopted by Regional Association IV. It defines the observing, forecasting and warning responsibilities of all cooperating Members and deals with other related items such as terminology and communications. The Committee repeatedly reviews the operational plan and has concluded that it contributes in a very real sense to the improvement of warning systems in the hurricane areas of Region IV. It also serves as a valuable information source for the operational services. Other regional tropical cyclone bodies of the WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme family, the RA I Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South-West Indian Ocean, the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones for the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee and the RA V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and the South-East Indian Ocean have followed this initiative.
This publication includes chapters discussing: general, responsibilities of members, tropical cuclone products of the RSMC Miami, ground radar observations, satellite surveillance, aircraft reconnaissance, surface and upper-air observations, communications, tropical cyclone names, and archival of tropical cyclone data.
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