Glen Romine is now a second year graduate student at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences .
Hurricanes frequently spawn tornadoes during their rapid weakening as they make landfall.
Large scale wind environments are roughly similar for most tropical systems, with favorable shear in the right front quadrant. The likelihood of any particular hurricane to produce tornadoes at landfall is only weakly understood, owing largely to the lack of a solid theory for tornadogenesis and insufficient resolution of data. The latter problem can perhaps be improved through model simulations by generating additional data. Comparing this model generated data with observed data sets provides a means of ensuring that the model is well simulating the hurricane environment dynamics. Thorough analysis of the model generated data set should allow us to gain some insight into the dynamical transformations that occur as the hurricane interacts with the land surface and is cut off from the warm, moist ocean waters that fuel the system.